Question
Here are the details of a source:
Book name: The Maltreatment of Children
Chapter name: Management of the problem
Author or the chapter: AW Franklin
Editors name: SM Smith
Pages 3-21
Publication date 2012
Will the following citation format be right or wrong?
According to Smith (2012:20) ...
Right
Wrong
Book name: The Maltreatment of Children
Chapter name: Management of the problem
Author or the chapter: AW Franklin
Editors name: SM Smith
Pages 3-21
Publication date 2012
Will the following citation format be right or wrong?
According to Smith (2012:20) ...
Right
Wrong
Answers
GPT-4o mini
The citation format you provided is **wrong** because it incorrectly attributes the chapter to Smith, who is the editor, rather than AW Franklin, who is the author of the chapter. The correct citation should reference Franklin as the author. A correct citation might look like this:
According to Franklin (2012:20) ...
According to Franklin (2012:20) ...