DOI in APA 6.edition

KSBerlin

Hi everyone,
I have a small problem: when I enter the DOI of an article and want this to be shown in my reference list later, I always have the URL of all dois as well. Just to make sure what I mean:

Crews, F. T., & Boettiger, C. A. (2009). Impulsivity, frontal lobes and risk for addiction. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 93(3), 237–247. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbb.2009.04.018

I do not want to have this http:// doi.org/-Part; I simply want to have it this way:

Crews, F. T., & Boettiger, C. A. (2009). Impulsivity, frontal lobes and risk for addiction. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 93(3), 237–247.
doi: 10.1016/j.pbb.2009.04.018

I have already deleted all urls in the right part of my Zotero-library. But this was no help. What have I done wrong?
Would be great if anybody had an idea what to do about it.
Thanks a lot in advance.
kati.

aurimas

See http://www.vaniercollege.qc.ca/techsupport/guides/ACL/APAGuideToElectronicRefs.pdf (e.g. page 18 in the PDF) This is the new APA format for DOIs

adamsmith

it's very easy to edit in the style, though:
just find where it says
"http://doi.org/" and replace it with "doi: " .
General instructions are here: http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step
remember to change the style title and id, otherwise this will be overwritten on updates.

KSBerlin

Thank you. I'll try to convince my Prof. of the new format.

bwiernik

In addition to the style guide linked to by aurimas, here is an APAStyle blog post explaining the new format and why it changed:
http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2014/07/how-to-use-the-new-doi-format-in-apa-style.html

In addition, here is the response from the official APA style support line regarding using "http://dx.doi.org/" versus the shorter "http://doi.org/" in references:

This DOI world is constantly changing, and APA formulated its guideline to use the http://dx.doi.org prefix based on the recommendation of CrossRef.org. CrossRef still specifies that this is the format to use; I am unaware as to whether they know that the doi.org site suggests a simpler format. Certainly as long as the DOI resolves you have satisfied the purpose of the reference, and in the future I wouldn’t be surprised if all publishers officially endorsed the shorter form. In the meantime, if you want to be a stickler for the rules, the dx.doi format is the one that’s officially endorsed.

Best regards,

The APA Style Expert Team

Because APA has indicated that the shorter form is acceptable, and it is preferred by doi.org (http://www.doi.org/doi_handbook/3_Resolution.html#3.7.3), we chose to go with "http://doi.org/" for the Zotero style.

Rintze

(@bwiernik, is that response from the APA folks public, or from a private communication?)

adamsmith

that's from an e-mail they replied to, not a public response.

Rintze

Okay, thanks. In response to https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/270072/#Comment_270072, I rewrote https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/doi_in_apa to bring it up-to-date and (hopefully) make it a little clearer.

zurpher

DOI Display Guidelines Update (March 2017)

http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2017/03/doi-display-guidelines-update-march-2017.html

The new preferred format is now with HTTPS.

bwiernik

Finally!

Rintze

(updated knowledge base article as well)