RefWorks and New APA Electronic Citation Style

Adding the DOI to RefWorks — in some cases, the DOI is not in the record when you import it from a database. You will need to enter it manually.

RefWorks has updated their APA information about DOIs. The “Additional Comments about APA…” screen (found at the bottom of an reference in Edit view) says:

“DOI field only appears when the source type of the reference is set to electronic and the field populated with information. … There is no need to include the date of retrieval and the database or URL when the DOI is used. …”

Here is an example of an article with a DOI cited in APA from the 2007 update, p. 9.

Shanahan, M. (2005). Perception as abduction: Turning sensor
data into meaningful representation. Cognitive Science,
29(1), 103–134. doi:10.1207/s15516709cog2901_5

Here is an example of an article in a database cited in APA from the 2007 update, p. 12:*

Morrissey, J. P. (2004). Medicaid benefits and recidivism of
mentally ill persons released from jail (NCJ No. 214169)
[Abstract]. Retrieved from National Criminal Justice Reference
Service abstracts database.

Here is a similar reference formatted in RefWorks:

Lee, B. (2007). Caregiving: A far-reaching public health concern. American Journal of Public Health, 97(11), 1931-1932. Retrieved from CINAHL Plus database.

* the example cites an abstract, but the principle is the same.