URL & DOI Problem

eabanoz

Hi Everybody,
I've problem with APA 6th edition. I've many journal with DOI and I would like to use them in my references. Some of them have url & doi info. Even though I delete url and update references I couldn't get rid off urls. Is there any advice for it.
PS: I checked forums but I only found that people changed APA style to non DOI version. It doesn't work in my case.

adamsmith

How are you creating the citations, specifically?
Note that APA requires to format DOIs in the form of URLs, i.e. https://doi.org/10.12345/4356787 and that's what Zotero is doing, so you might just be seeing that.

bwiernik

There is no problem. You are seeing a DOI formatted as a URL (e.g., https://doi.org/10.1234/567890), which is the current format endorsed (and strongly preferred) by APA:
https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/doi_in_apa

eabanoz

I send my paper to an important journal and I got a revision about DOI format. "3). In your references list, please introduce DOI numbers with the phrase "doi:" rather than "https://doi.org/" .
@adamsmith
I'm using MS World 2016 adds on for creating citations and references. I saw all DOIs with "https://doi.org/..." format.

eabanoz

@bwiernik I checked the link and I understand that even though APA endorse this format, most of the journals using old version.

adamsmith

we have a style with the old prefix available: https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=id:apa-old-doi-prefix
though it's really quite inexcusable that journals would insist given explicit APA guidance to the contrary

eabanoz

Thanks @adamsmith .It works for me but as you said it's totally weird that they are insist on it.

bwiernik

What journal are you submitting to? I've had a lot of luck insisting to typesetters that the new format is strongly preferred by APA and that it be used.

eabanoz

@bwiernik Communicaiton Research (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/crx)

bwiernik

Ah, yes, Sage journals are really annoying about this. I would try to insist that the new format be used, but then switch to the old prefix style @adamsmith mentioned if they refuse. Maybe if enough authors complain, they will switch.