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Education & School Psychology Subject Guide: APA Style

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Citing Your Sources with APA

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Important Updates about DOI in citations:

  • You must put the DOI to the end of your citation in your reference list if a DOI is available, regardless whether you used the online version or the print version.
  • If you do not see a DOI in the database citation or on the first page of the article, go to http://www.crossref.org/guestquery to search for the DOI.
  • If you still cannot find the DOI, include the citation in the reference list without any additional information. The reference should look the same as the reference for a print version of the work. 
  • Follow the current recommendations of the International DOI Foundation to format DOIs in your reference list:   
    • https://doi.org/xxxxx
    • The string “https://doi.org/” is a way of presenting a DOI as a link, and “xxxxx” refers to the DOI number

Example:

1)  Shimi, A., & Scerif, G. (2015). The interplay of spatial attentional biases and mental codes in VSTM: Developmentally informed hypotheses. Developmental Psychology, 51(6), 731-743. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0039057

 

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