{"id":12946,"date":"2013-11-07T17:55:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T23:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=12946"},"modified":"2013-11-07T17:55:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T23:55:39","slug":"t3-dois-and-apa-citation-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/12946","title":{"rendered":"T<sup>3<\/sup>: DOIs and APA Citation Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s tech tip addresses advances in scholarly communication technology and co-evolving citation styles. As scholarly publishers create new, increasingly flexible methods for organizing and tracking born-digital documents, citation styles reflect these changes. Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) provide a way to uniquely tag a scholarly article (or, really, any digital object) using a string of numbers and letters (similarly to the way that ISBNs and ISSNs identify books and serials). Armed only with a DOI, a reader can track down an individual article and discover how best to access the full text of the article (most likely through his or her library&#8217;s website).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crossref.org\">CrossRef<\/a>, the official DOI link registration agency for scholarly publications, used to recommend that authors and publishers format DOIs as doi:10.NNNN\/doisuffix in all documents. Now, since most readers view references to DOIs in an online environment, CrossRef recommends that authors and publishers format DOIs as URLs: http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.NNNN\/doisuffix. The new format cuts down on unnecessary cutting and pasting as internet browsers interpret these as active links.<\/p>\n<p>According to the 6<sup>th<\/sup> edition of the APA Style manual, a writer should include the DOI of a journal article using the format doi:0.NNNN\/doisuffix. \u00a0Since CrossRef changed its rules last summer, the editors of the APA Style manual <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.apastyle.org\/apastyle\/2009\/09\/a-doi-primer.html#comment-6a01157041f4e3970b017744678159970d\">now accept<\/a> either the URL format of the DOI or the\u00a0doi:10.NNNN\/doisuffix format. Here is a sample reference in both formats:<\/p>\n<p>Old Way:<br \/>\nHerbst-Damm, K. L., &#038; Kulik, J. A. (2005). Volunteer support, marital status, and the survival times of terminally ill patients. Health Psychology, 24, 225-229. doi:10.1037\/0278-6133.24.2.225<\/p>\n<p>New Way:<br \/>\nHerbst-Damm, K. L., &#038; Kulik, J. A. (2005). Volunteer support, marital status, and the survival times of terminally ill patients. Health Psychology, 24, 225-229. http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1037\/0278-6133.24.2.225<\/p>\n<p>Both ways are correct but remember to <em><b>always be consistent<\/b><\/em>: pick one way and stick with it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s tech tip addresses advances in scholarly communication technology and co-evolving citation styles. As scholarly publishers create new, increasingly flexible methods for organizing and tracking born-digital documents, citation styles reflect these changes. Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) provide a way to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/12946\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13959,39],"tags":[1417,1416,141,214,213,52298],"class_list":["post-12946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tips","category-tips-for-research","tag-apa-citations","tag-apa-style","tag-articles","tag-citations","tag-citing","tag-doi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12946"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12961,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12946\/revisions\/12961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}