The question is: how are questions marks in titles to be documented in the references list? This is one of those issues that are not clearly defined by the APA Manual. This is my best suggestion based on the example that I found in the book:
EXAMPLE
“What's Gender Got to Do with It? Women and Foreign Relations History” by Kristin Hoganson from OAH Magazine of History. One could reasonably assume that “Women and Foreign Relations” could be treated as a subtitle, however, if this is the case, should a colon follow the question mark? The short answer is, “no”. Unless the author explicitly places the colon in this type of title, do not add it.
SUGGESTED SOLUTION
Hoganson, K. (2005, March). What’s gender got to do with it? Women and foreign relations history. OAH Magazine of History, 19(2), 14–18. Retrieved February 13, 2008, from Academic Search Complete database.
NOTE: Sorry, I could not format a hanging indent or double space in this document, but you get the idea. The original article can be found by clicking here.
EXPLANATION
The explanation is based on citation example 75 (p. 273 of the APA Manual). It is possible to document the article as suggested because the title ends with a question mark (which is atypical of an article), so treat it as you would a colon – the formal title ends at the question mark. The next passage (“Women and Foreign Relations History”) acts a subtitle, so it begins with a capital letter and all others are lowercase unless a proper noun is present in the reference list. You should, however, include the colon if it is expressed in the original article title.
EXAMPLE 2
Another such example can be found at: http://www.whatisrss.com. You can site this page as:
What is RSS? RSS explained. (n.d.). Retrieved February 13, 2008, from http://www.whatisrss.com
EXAMPLE 3
The following example is of a chapter title that has the colon following the question mark. In this case, display the colon as the authors originally intended.
Franklin, S., & Graesser, A. (1997). Is it an agent, or just a program?: A taxonomy for autonomous agents. In J. P. Müller, M. J. Wooldridge, & N. R. Jennings (Eds.), Intelligent agents III: Agent theories, architectures, and languages: ECAI '96 Workshop (ATAL), Budapest, Hungary, August 12-13, 1996: Proceedings (pp. 21-36). Berlin, Germany: Springer.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Question marks in titles...
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