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APA6th: Adding DOI and Website Addresses

A guide to citation in the American Psychological Association Style Guide, 6th edition (2010).

DOI vs Web Address

DOI versus websites.

 

Whenever you are citing from an electronic document add the digital object identifier to the citation if there is one.   Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a number that is unique to a document. APA 6th edition suggests that you use the DOI whenever possible instead of the website address. DOIs can usually be found in the journal record in the database you download it from.  Sometimes they will be listed on the pdf document itself.

 

Example (no DOI available):

 

Smith, M. E. G. and Campbell, P. (1997). Discourses on deafness: social policy and the communicative habilitation of the deaf. Canadian Journal of Sociology, 22(4) p.437-456. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/3341692

 

Example (DOI available):

 

Palmer, B. D. (2010). The personal, the political, and permanent revolution: Ernest Mandel and the conflicted legacies of Trotskyism. International Review of Social History, 55(1) p.117-132. doi:10.1017/S0020859009990642