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With all automated citation systems, there will always be some corrections that will be necessary. Most of the databases, include correct citations, but EBSCOhost database citations tend to be incorrect most of the time. The following are corrections you always have to make in EBSCOhost databases for APA style. 

• Check all capitalization within the entire citation. If you see parts of the record that include capitalization that is an indication that the citation will have incorrect capitalization as well (figure 1).
• Check the title of the article for proper capitalization (use sentence case where you lower case all letter except for the first word of the title and subtitle and any proper nouns.

Figure 1: Article from Academic Search Complete. Capitalized letters in the record may mean that the citation will be incorrect.

Here is the citation the database produces for the article above.

There are a few mistakes in this citation that need to be corrected. First, all caps should always be fixed to normal capitalization, unless it's denoting a specific acronym or abbreviation. Remember that in APA style the title of the article is in sentence case. The correct reference looks like this:

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