It isnt APA format

Cassierider73

My teacher keeps telling me that my referances are not correct.She stated they are not correctly formatted in APA.I checked my settings and they all say APA.I do not know what to do except go to Mendley.Help?

adamsmith

Mendeley uses the same citation style so that likely wouldn't help anyway. Could you be more specific about what's wrong with your citations according to you teacher?

Cassierider73

She never says.But she says they are not correct and docs me 10 pts weekly.Here is the latest below.These were imported using Zotero.

Downey, M., Parslow, S., & Smart, M. (2011). The hidden treasure in nursing leadership: informalleaders. Journal of Nursing Management, 19(4), 517–521. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2834.2011.01253.x

Karell, D. (2018, February 15). 4 Types of Organizational Structures | Point Park Online. Retrieved March 13, 2019, from https://online.pointpark.edu/business/types-of-organizational-structures/

Louis, C. J., Clark, J. R., Gray, B., Brannon, D., & Parker, V. (2019). Service line structure and decision-maker attention in three health systems: Implications for patient-centered care. Health Care Management Review, 44(1), 41–56. https://doi.org/10.1097/HMR.0000000000000172

Marquis, B. L., & Huston, C. J. (2017). Leadership roles and management functions in nursing:Theory and application (9th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.

Norton, J. R., & Fox, R. E. (1997). Organizational structure: Removing the barriers. In The change equation: Capitalizing on diversity for effective organizational change. (pp. 183–241). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/10224-006

Siggelkow, N., siggelkow@wharton. upenn. ed., & Levinthal, D. A. ., levinthal@wharton. upenn. ed. (2003). Temporarily Divide to Conquer: Centralized, Decentralized, and Reintegrated

Organizational Approaches to Exploration and Adaptation. Organization Science, 14(6), 650–669. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.14.6.650.24870

Cassierider73

But I am frusterated because I check and it states it is in APA. It imports easily.But according to her they are all wrong.

adamsmith

They look pretty good for the most part (the Siggelkow one needs some cleaning in the metadata - you can't assume that all Zotero imports are always 100% correct).

Have you tried asking her? Her job is to teach you, after all...

The one thing that's technically not correct because Zotero can't automate it is the issue number. For continuously paginated journals (such as Organization Science, e.g.) you should remove that.

Cassierider73

continuously paginated journals?

Cassierider73

Burnes, B. (2004). Kurt Lewin and the Planned Approach to Change: A Re-appraisal. Journal of

Management Studies, 41(6), 977–1002. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2004.00463.x

Marquis, B. L., & Huston, C. J. (2017). Leadership roles and management functions in nursing:

Theory and application (9th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.

McAlearney, A. S. S., Terris, D., Hardacre, J., Spurgeon, P., Brown, C., Baumgart, A., & Nystrom,

M. E. (2014). Organizational Coherence in Health Care Organizations: Conceptual Guidance to

Facilitate Quality Improvement and Organizational Change. Quality Management in Health

Care, 23(4), 254–267. https://doi.org/10.1097/QMH.0000000000000044

Meyer, R. M., & O’Brien‐Pallas, L. L. (2010). Nursing Services Delivery Theory: an open system

approach Journal of Advanced Nursing, 66(12), 2828–2838.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-

2648.2010.05449.x

Cassierider73

I have asked her and she says "look at your APA ref Manual". She is a real $#@%^. I am in my Masters program I have never been critiqued like this before.I used to use citation machine but they kept saying that wasn't right either.Then I found Zotero and I love the import the citation.But I am not good at referances and I do not know what these things ususally do wrong

bwiernik

I can assure you that the CSL APA style is extremely accurate. The two things she is likely thinking about are these:
1) The Manual says to omit issue numbers unless the journal restarts pagination at each issue. This is impossible to automate and serves to make retrieval more difficult for readers, so the CSL always includes the issue number. If she is going to be a problem, you should manually delete the issue numbers as needed.
2) The CSL style uses the current updated format for the DOI (https://doi.org/) rather than the outdated doi: prefix in the Manual. This is correct current APA style.
https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/doi_in_apa

If Your instructor insists on the old DOI format, she is, frankly, wrong. But this version of the APA style should meet your needs: https://www.zotero.org/styles/apa-old-doi-prefix

emilianoeheyns

If you take those two points that bwiernik mentioned to her, will she at least acknowledge whether those were the flaws she's spotted?

bwiernik

@emilianoeheyns In many cases, “Research Methods” in psychology is a class about APA referencing.

emilianoeheyns

In any case, bringing these two samples to her might show proactivity on your part and maybe then she can give you more pointers.

emilianoeheyns

(this is aside the fact that APA is clearly the superior bibliographic style and its use should be encouraged everywhere)

rkaplan@umrpc.com

Understanding how to find materials to cite - very important

Understanding the need to cite and void plagiarism - super important

Understanding trivial minutiae of APA style - totally irrelevant to life, irrelevant to psychology, and a mark of an incredibly insecure and likely unaccomplished professor

bwiernik

Folks, let’s be careful to not pile on here, though. That’s not going to be productive.

fbennett

(And pushing a student on referencing detail can be useful instruction, to encourage more careful engagement with the material--a lot depends on context. It's bad teaching to focus on referencing rules to the exclusion of the subject matter, but there are sometimes other issues.)