NURS 6001 Week 6 APA Reference Repair Example

Course	NURS 6001 Foundations of Graduate Study
Week	Week 6
Paper type	Reference list repair
Length	About 770 words, 5 pages
Format	APA 7 student paper
School	Walden University
Program	Master of Science in Nursing (MSN)
Updated	October 2026

Free sample paper for NURS 6001 Week 6

APA 7 Reference List Repair: Eight Entries, Four Citations and a Correction Log

Student Name

College of Nursing, Walden University

NURS 6001: Foundations of Graduate Study

Instructor Name

Month Day, Year

What this page is doingEach entry appears as it arrived and as it should be, with the rule behind every change named in the log.

APA 7 Reference List Repair: Eight Entries, Four Citations and a Correction Log

The Draft

The reference list below came from a hurried draft of a short paper on how working nurses build scholarly writing and searching skills. Its eight sources are real and sound (Alspach, 2008; Gopee & Deane, 2013; Kirkpatrick, 2019; National Library of Medicine, n.d.; Oermann & Hays, 2018; Ross, 2010; Tesh et al., 2014; Wong et al., 2025); only their formatting was wrong. In the table, asterisks show where the draft placed italics.

Table 1

Entries as Drafted and as Corrected

#	As drafted	Corrected to APA 7
1	Alspach, G. (2008). Napping on the night shift: Slacker or savior? Critical Care Nurse, 28(6), 12-19. https://doi.org/10.4037/ccn2008.28.6.12	Alspach, G. (2008). Napping on the night shift: Slacker or savior? Critical Care Nurse, 28(6), 12-19. https://doi.org/10.4037/ccn2008.28.6.12
2	Gopee, N., & Deane, M. (2013). Strategies For Successful Academic Writing: Institutional And Non-Institutional Support For Students. Nurse Education Today, 33(12), 1624-1631. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2013.02.004	Gopee, N., & Deane, M. (2013). Strategies for successful academic writing: Institutional and non-institutional support for students. Nurse Education Today, 33(12), 1624-1631. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2013.02.004
3	Kirkpatrick, K. J. (2019). Online doctoral students writing for scholarly publication. Computers and Composition, 52, 19-36. doi:10.1016/j.compcom.2019.01.012	Kirkpatrick, K. J. (2019). Online doctoral students writing for scholarly publication. Computers and Composition, 52, 19-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2019.01.012
4	Oermann, M. H., & Hays, J. C. (2018). Writing for publication in nursing. Springer Publishing Company, 4th edition.	Oermann, M. H., & Hays, J. C. (2018). Writing for publication in nursing (4th ed.). Springer Publishing Company.
5	National Library of Medicine. MEDLINE, PubMed, and PMC (PubMed Central): How are they different? https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/difference.html	National Library of Medicine. (n.d.). MEDLINE, PubMed, and PMC (PubMed Central): How are they different? https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/difference.html
6	Tesh AS, Hyde YM and Kautz DD, 2014. A writing intensive introductory course for RN to BSN students. Nurse Educator, 39(1), 6-7. https://doi.org/10.1097/NNE.0000000000000008	Tesh, A. S., Hyde, Y. M., & Kautz, D. D. (2014). A writing intensive introductory course for RN to BSN students. Nurse Educator, 39(1), 6-7. https://doi.org/10.1097/NNE.0000000000000008
7	Ross, J. (2010). Information literacy for evidence-based practice in perianesthesia nurses: Readiness for evidence-based practice. Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, 25, pp. 64-70.	Ross, J. (2010). Information literacy for evidence-based practice in perianesthesia nurses: Readiness for evidence-based practice. Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, 25(2), 64-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jopan.2010.01.007
8	Wong, W. Y. A., et al. (2025). Key considerations when developing academic writing support for nursing and midwifery doctoral students: A scoping review. Nurse Education Today, 144.	Wong, W. Y. A., Caughers, G., Saifullah, A. D., Galeotti, M., Kemp, B. J., Cooper, C., Matthews, M., & Wilson, C. B. (2025). Key considerations when developing academic writing support for nursing and midwifery doctoral students: A scoping review. Nurse Education Today, 144, Article 106399. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2024.106399

Correction Log

1. Italics moved from the article title to the journal name and volume. In APA 7, article titles are plain; the periodical title and volume are italic.

2. Title case changed to sentence case. Article titles capitalize only the first word, the first word after a colon and proper nouns.

3. DOI rewritten as a full https://doi.org/ link, the only DOI format APA 7 uses.

4. Edition moved into parentheses directly after the book title and abbreviated as 4th ed.; the publisher follows at the end.

5. A date element added. When a webpage shows no publication or update date, APA 7 uses n.d., and the page title is italicized because it stands alone.

6. Author names punctuated in APA form, surname first with comma-separated initials, an ampersand before the last author, and the year moved into parentheses after the authors.

7. Issue number added in parentheses after the italic volume, "pp." removed from the page range, and the DOI added.

8. "Et al." removed from the reference list, where APA 7 lists up to 20 authors, and the article number added because the journal uses article numbers for online articles.

What this page is doingOne line per change, each naming the element and the rule. The log is what makes the repair teachable rather than just finished.

In-Text Citation Repairs

Drafted: (Gopee and Deane, 2013). Corrected: (Gopee & Deane, 2013). Parenthetical citations join two authors with an ampersand.

Drafted: (Tesh, Hyde, & Kautz, 2014). Corrected: (Tesh et al., 2014). In APA 7, a source with three or more authors is cited with the first author and et al. from the first citation.

Drafted: Wong et al (2025) found. Corrected: Wong et al. (2025) found. The abbreviation needs its period.

Drafted: (National Library of Medicine). Corrected: (National Library of Medicine, n.d.). A citation always carries a date element, even when it is n.d.

Finished List

The corrected entries appear below as the paper's reference list, alphabetized by first author, double-spaced with hanging indents, exactly as they would close a submitted paper.

References

Alspach, G. (2008). Napping on the night shift: Slacker or savior? Critical Care Nurse, 28(6), 12-19. https://doi.org/10.4037/ccn2008.28.6.12

Gopee, N., & Deane, M. (2013). Strategies for successful academic writing: Institutional and non-institutional support for students. Nurse Education Today, 33(12), 1624-1631. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2013.02.004

Kirkpatrick, K. J. (2019). Online doctoral students writing for scholarly publication. Computers and Composition, 52, 19-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2019.01.012

National Library of Medicine. (n.d.). MEDLINE, PubMed, and PMC (PubMed Central): How are they different? https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/difference.html

Oermann, M. H., & Hays, J. C. (2018). Writing for publication in nursing (4th ed.). Springer Publishing Company.

Ross, J. (2010). Information literacy for evidence-based practice in perianesthesia nurses: Readiness for evidence-based practice. Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, 25(2), 64-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jopan.2010.01.007

Tesh, A. S., Hyde, Y. M., & Kautz, D. D. (2014). A writing intensive introductory course for RN to BSN students. Nurse Educator, 39(1), 6-7. https://doi.org/10.1097/NNE.0000000000000008

Wong, W. Y. A., Caughers, G., Saifullah, A. D., Galeotti, M., Kemp, B. J., Cooper, C., Matthews, M., & Wilson, C. B. (2025). Key considerations when developing academic writing support for nursing and midwifery doctoral students: A scoping review. Nurse Education Today, 144, Article 106399. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2024.106399

NURS 6001 Week 6 instructions, in plain terms

Week 6 of NURS 6001 usually asks you to find and fix errors in a reference list and in-text citations using APA 7. You list each error with the rule that corrects it, repair the citations and present the finished list. Faculty penalize wrong corrections heavily, since they show guessed rules. Cite the APA manual in APA 7. Mixed source types, such as webpages and guidelines, test different rules. The work is graded on accuracy, not only formatting. A correction log makes your reasoning visible. NURS 6001 faculty want each error named with its APA 7 rule, in-text citations repaired alongside the list and the finished list in order.

How the NURS 6001 Week 6 example is put together

Two columns dominate the page. On the left, eight reference entries as a hurried draft might contain them: a journal article with its title in title case, a DOI formatted as a bare number, a book with its edition in the wrong place, a government agency webpage missing its date, an article with authors' initials mangled, and several others. The right-hand column holds the same entries corrected to APA 7. Below the table, a correction log gives one line per change, naming the element and the rule. A final section repairs four in-text citations from the same draft, including a three-author source cited with every name. The finished list closes the piece, double-spaced with hanging indents and alphabetized, exactly as it would appear at the end of a submitted paper.

Where the marks sit in the NURS 6001 Week 6 rubric

Nothing in this week forgives a wrong correction. One wrong fix among eight can cost more than a missed error, because it shows the rule was guessed rather than checked. The example avoids that by citing the specific APA 7 rule in each log line, which makes errors in the repair itself easy to catch before submission. Coverage is a second row: the set spans enough source types that the major format rules appear at least once. In-text citations often separate a good repair from an average one, since faculty read them throughout every paper that follows. Marks slip when a log says only corrected formatting, when capitalization is fixed in one entry but missed in another, or when the final list abandons the hanging indent.

NURS 6001 Week 6 help: mistakes that cost marks

Reference repairs lose the most when a correct entry is changed to an incorrect one. Check every rule in the manual before fixing. Another common gap is fixing references but not in-text citations. Repair both. Writers also miss DOI formatting. Use the https://doi.org form. Avoid adding retrieval dates for stable articles. Write group authors in full. Keep alphabetical order. Close with the finished list. Writers also forget to check that each in-text citation matches its reference entry exactly. Compare them. Another frequent slip is italicizing the wrong part of a journal entry. Check the manual. Keep hanging indents in the final list. Close by reading the finished list against the manual one last time.

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NURS 6001 Week 6 questions, answered

Which APA edition does the example follow?

The seventh edition of the Publication Manual, which Walden uses across its programs. Several differences from the sixth edition show up in the repairs, including DOIs written as web addresses, no publisher location for books, and et al. from the first citation for three or more authors. If your instructor issues a local variation, the sample follows it and notes where it departs from the manual.

Why are a webpage and a clinical guideline in the set?

Because nursing papers lean on both, and they are formats where reference errors tend to cluster. Guidelines are frequently cited as though they were journal articles, and agency webpages often lose their dates or authors. Including both means the repair covers the entries your later papers are most likely to contain, not only the tidy journal citations every tutorial already shows.

Is a reference list repair graded on formatting alone?

Mostly on accuracy, with explanation as a close second. Many rubrics for this week want each correction explained, so the example carries a log instead of silent fixes. A corrected list without explanations may still earn partial credit, but your instructor cannot tell a checked rule from a lucky guess unless the reasoning appears on the page.

Where can I find a free NURS 6001 Week 6 sample paper?

The eight-entry reference repair is reproduced here with the draft, the correction log with rules, the in-text repairs and the finished list.

How many references are repaired in NURS 6001 Week 6?

Eight, with a correction log naming each error and the APA rule behind the fix.