Spring 2009 Letter

Hello! This is Rebecca Knight at the Library. I want to remind everyone that I am the library liaison to the Human Development and Family Studies Department and the selector for materials related to those subject areas.

Due to the University’s budget concerns, we will not be ordering any materials until the new fiscal year. I will be glad to hear suggestions from you and hold on to them until the next order period.

You may use the Recommendation for Library Purchase form if you like.

Library Workshops

The Workshops for Spring 2009 include sessions on Citing with APA Style, Web of Science (citation database), RefWorks (bibliographic management system), research funding resources, and multimedia tools.

For the full schedule, see
Workshops for Spring 2009

Instruction Sessions

Contact me if you would like to schedule a library instruction session for yourself, your department, or your students. A one-hour presentation that describes the key indexes and databases for family topics will assist students in finding quality sources for their research projects. I will be happy to work with you to find a convenient time and location to meet with your class.

Library Web Resources for Human Development and Family Studies

The Resources for Human Development and Family Studies subject page includes research guides, Internet resources, selected Library databases, electronic journal subscriptions, and contact information.
It is also possible for me to prepare a webpage for a particular class if one is needed.

I hope your semester goes smoothly.  Contact me if I can be of assistance.

Regards,

Rebecca

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/

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.

APA Requirements for Citing E-Journals

In June 2007, APA issued: APA Style Guide to Electronic References, which is an update to the 5th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. The new guidelines call for changes in how people cite electronic media.

The most significant change is that APA wants people to cite the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) instead of a URL. Since DOI’s have been published as part of many scholarly articles for some years now, this should not present a great problem — but it does, because most people have never noticed them, don’t know what they are, and don’t know how to use them.

See this page on the APA site: Electronic References: Electronic Media and URLs

It gives this explanation:

A DOI is a unique alphanumeric string assigned by a registration agency to identify content and provide a persistent link to its location on the Internet. When a DOI is available, include the DOI instead of the URL in the reference. Publishers who follow best practices will publish the DOI prominently on the first page of an article. Because the DOI string can be long, it is safest to copy and paste whenever possible. Provide the alphanumeric string for the DOI exactly as published in the article. When your article is published and made available electronically, the DOI will be activated as a link to the content you are referencing.

Here is an example of a journal article: (remember to use the Proxy sign-in if you are reading this off-campus)

Explaining sibling differences in achievement and behavioral outcomes: The importance of within- and between-family factors Social Science Research
Volume 36, Issue 3, September 2007, Pages 1087-1104

This journal is available through the vendor ScienceDirect. I use this as an example becaue the DOI is easy to spot and the vendor includes an explanation of what DOIs are. The DOI for this article is doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2006.09.002

The new APA citation style is:

Conley, D., Pfeiffera, K. M., & Velez, M. (2007). Explaining sibling differences in achievement and behavioral outcomes: The importance of within- and between-family factors. Social Science Research, 36(3), 1087-1104. doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2006.09.002

Other changes include:

• With the exception of hard-to-find books and other documents of limited circulation delivered by electronic databases, the database name is no longer a necessary element of the reference. This change is made in the interest of simplifying reference format. If you do include the database name in a reference, do not include the database URL.
• For journal articles, always include the journal issue number (if available) along with the volume number, regardless of whether the journal is paginated separately by issue or continuously by volume. This change in reference style from the fifth edition of the Publication Manual is intended to make the format for journal article references more consistent.
• Only use a retrieved date when there is no fixed publication date, edition, or version number.
• If there is no DOI assigned, give the exact URL (if the content is open-access) or the URL of the journal home page (if the content is accessible by subscription).
• Give the home or menu page URL for works whose full text is accessible by subscription only.
• Give the home or menu page URL for reference works, such as online dictionaries or encyclopedias.

The update APA Style Guide to Electronic References is only available for purchase as an online file (by download) . They are not planning on issuing a print edition.

Here links to DOI resolvers:

• Resolve A DOI
• Free DOI look-up (CrossRef)

To access the article listed above, paste 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2006.09.002 (or doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2006.09.002) into the search box.