The College at Brockport: State University of New York

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Library Publications and Presentations

1-2016

APA Reference List Rubric for Blackboard

Logan T. Rath
The College at Brockport, lrath@brockport.edu

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Rath, Logan T., "APA Reference List Rubric for Blackboard" (2016). Library Publications and Presentations. 27.
https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/drakepubs/27
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 APA REFERENCES LIST RUBRIC
Yes (1) No (0)
The page is titled References and is
Title The page is incorrectly titled.
centered on the page.

Alphabetical References are not in alphabetical

References are in alphabetical order.
Order order.

All author names are correctly formatted

Authors Author names are not correctly
(Last Name, First Initial) and do not include
Names degrees (PhD) or any additional information.
formatted.

Year of Year of publication is included within Year of publication is not included or is

Publication parentheses. incorrectly formatted.

Article titles are correctly capitalized in

sentence case. Only the first word (or first
Article titles Article titles are incorrectly capitalized.
word after a colon) and proper nouns are
capitalized.

Journal titles are capitalized properly

Book/Journal
(Journal Title, Book title: Subtitle of book) Book and journal titles are incorrect.
Titles and are italicized.

Volume/Issue numbers are correct,

Volume/Issue including italics. There are no extra words or There are errors with volume and/or
umbers spaces, only numbers formatted correctly issue numbers.
(e.g. 44(3)).

Page numbers follow the volume/issue

Page
information and include the pages for the Page numbers are incorrect.
Numbers entire article.

DOIs are included if available, prefixed by

Web site & References contain extraneous
doi:. "Retrieved from" only appears on
DOIs Websites and eBooks if there is no DOI.
information.

Page is properly formatted including 1”

Page Setup Page is not properly formatted.
margins hanging-indents.

Total : /10

Developed by Logan Rath, The College at Brockport, June 2016