Citation Error

Godfrey, Donald. (2005) Adapting Historical Citations to APA Style. Journal of broadcasting & electronic media, 49(4), pp. 544–547. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15506878jobem4

• It is correct

• Only the initial should be provided for the first name: Godfrey, D.

• There should be a comma after the period, but everything else is correct.

Godfrey, D. (2005) Adapting Historical Citations to APA Style. Journal of broadcasting & electronic media, 49(4), pp. 544–547. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15506878jobem4904_15

• It is correct

• It is missing the month and day of publication.

• It is missing a period after the closing parenthesis, but is otherwise correct

Godfrey, D. (2005). Adapting Historical Citations to APA Style. Journal of broadcasting & electronic media, 49(4), pp. 544–547. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15506878jobem4904_15

• It is correct

• It should be italicized

• It should be in sentence case (i.e., only the first word and proper nouns capitalized)

• It should be italicized and in sentence case.

Godfrey, D. (2005). Adapting historical citations to APA Style. Journal of broadcasting & electronic media, 49(4), pp. 544–547. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15506878jobem4904_15

• It is correct

• It should be italicized and in title case (i.e., all major words capitalized)

• It should be italicized

• It should be in title case (i.e., all major words capitalized)

Godfrey, D. (2005). Adapting historical citations to APA Style. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 49(4), pp. 544–547. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15506878jobem4904_15

• It is correct

• It should not be italicized

• It should be provided in the same parentheses as the issue number

• There should be a period after the volume number

Godfrey, D. (2005). Adapting historical citations to APA Style. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 49(4), pp. 544–547. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15506878jobem4904_15

• It is correct

• Provide just the page range (e.g., 544–547); "pp." isn't required

• It is not necessary to note the page range in a reference to a journal article

• The page numbers should provide all pages cited from within the article (e.g., pp. 544, 555, & 547), not the range of pages where the article is located in the journal.

Godfrey, D. (2005). Adapting historical citations to APA Style. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 49(4), 544–547. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15506878jobem4904_15

• It is correct

• It is incorrect to provide a DOI; the author should have provided the URL to the resource

• It is missing a retrieval date

Godfrey, D. (2005). Adapting historical citations to APA Style. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 49(4), pp. 544–547. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15506878jobem4904_15

This resource is:

• An online newspaper

• A printed article

• A website

• online article