APA Citation Style Quick Guide

There is an APA citation style guide available in the Library at the Information and Reference Desks.  It is also available on the Library web:

Virtual Reference Desk home | Citation Styles

For your convenience, I am pasting the guide here.

APA Citation Style Quick Guide

Effective June 2007, the editors of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association changed the recommendations for citing electronic resources. See APA Style Guide to Electronic References (2007) (at Reference Desk) for complete information.

For electronic journals, use the DOI (Digital Object Identifier), instead of a URL.

If a DOI is not printed in the article or in the database record, search this resource to find one. Articles available online may have a DOI, even if they were originally published prior to the Internet.

• Cross/Ref Simple Text Query (http://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery/)

Do not use a retrieved date (date article was accessed) for journals.

Summary of major changes:

• If there is a DOI, do not use a retrieved date or a database name
• If there is no DOI, use the complete URL of the article, if the journal is freely available
• If there is no DOI, use the URL of the journal homepage, if the journal is requires a subscription
• If using the database name, do not use a URL

Examples below should have “hanging indentation”.

Article with DOI

Friedman, J. W., & Mezzetti, C. (2001). Learning in games by random sampling. Journal of Economic Theory, 98(1), 55-84. doi:10.1006/jeth.2000.2694

Article without DOI; freely available

State-specific prevalence of current cigarette smoking among adults – United States, 2002. (2004). MMWR, 52(53), 1277-1280. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5253a1.htm

Article without DOI; by subscription

Dodiuk-Gad, R. P., Rozen, G. S., Rennert, G., Rennert, H. S., & Ish-Shalom, S. (2005). Sustained effect of short-term calcium supplementation on bone mass in adolescent girls with low calcium intake. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 81(1), 168-174. Retrieved from http://www.ajcn.org/

Article without DOI; from database

Vest, J. H. C. (2003). From Nansemond to Monacan: The legacy of the Pochick-Nansemond among the Bear Mountain Monacan. American Indian Quarterly, 27(3/4), 781. Retrieved from Ethnic NewsWatch database.

To retrieve an article with a DOI, type or paste the DOI into a DOI resolver:

http://doi.org/ or http://dx.doi.org/