Question

Citation
A student is writing a research report on the survival skills of beetles. Read the information about a source referenced in the report.

Type of Source book
Title of Book Incredible Insects
Author of Book Natalia Bondera
Publisher Penguin Press
Date of Publication December 2012
Pages 53-68
The student is using APA citation style. Read the following entry for this source on a Works Cited page.

Bondera, Natalia. (2012, December). Incredible Insects. Penguin Press, 53-68.

Click the circle in the row for each named component of the entry to indicate whether it is correct or incorrect as it appears on a Works Cited page.

Correct Incorrect
author
book title
publisher
date of publication
pages

Answer 1

author — Incorrect
- APA uses initials, not full first names. Correct: Bondera, N.

book title — Incorrect
- APA book titles use sentence case (only first word and proper nouns capitalized) and are italicized. Correct: Incredible insects.

publisher — Incorrect
- The publisher name is correct, but it should not be followed by a comma and page numbers. In APA it appears as: Penguin Press.

date of publication — Incorrect
- For a book APA uses the year only (no month). Correct: (2012).

pages — Incorrect
- Page range is not included for a whole book in an APA book reference. Pages are used for chapters or parts of edited works.

Correct APA book entry (example):
Bondera, N. (2012). Incredible insects. Penguin Press.