APA Style - 6th ed: Home

The complete answer book available:

• on reserve at the circulation desk
• in the reference collection (1st floor)
• in the regular collection (4th floor)

Look for the 'cite' option

• choose APA
• highlight
• copy
• paste
• correct "Retrieved from.." statement if necessary
• proofread! (Pay special attention to capitalization of article titles.)

Purdue University's Online Writing Center offers lots of great tools, including this set of tools on using the 7th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.

Finding a DOI for a journal article (when it isn't included in the article or citation)

• Go to Crossref.org

• Choose "Search Metadata"
• Search your article title (copy and paste makes it easy)

• If the article appears in the first 3-4 on the list...
  • right click (or the equivalent) and copoy the DOI URL (https://doi.org/.....)
  • paste the DOI URL into your citation
• If the article doesn't appear in the first few on the list (and your title was entered correctly), it probably doesn't have a DOI. See the instructions for finding the journal URL if required.

Finding a Journal URL when a DOI is not available

• Search the web (Google) for the Journal Title

• Choose the link that points to the overview page

• Verify that you can choose issues and articles from the page
• Highlight and copy the URL