For Articles with no DOI, use URL instead?

james.chinnery

For Journal Articles that have page numbers but do not have a DOI, is it possible to have the URL listed in the (APA-7th) bibliography instead?
Many thanks.

damnation

Hi,

You would need to modify the citation style.
Is this for a specific journal or just your own flavour of APA7 that you want.

james.chinnery

I did wonder if my tutor was just being picky, but:

https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples/journal-article-references

does say:

If the journal article does not have a DOI but does have a URL that will resolve for readers (e.g., it is from an online journal that is not part of a database), include the URL of the article at the end of the reference.

damnation

One for @bwiernik then. :)

bwiernik

The APA CSL style already does this. It will include the DOI if one is provided, or another URL otherwise. If you aren’t seeing the URL show up, check your item data in Zotero.

damnation

I had the same answer typed, but it doesn't put a DOI/URL if there is a page entered.

bwiernik

That would be the setting in Zotero to “Include URL for paper articles”. Be sure that box is checked.

james.chinnery

Indeed. If I remove the data from "Pages" then the URL is given, but with data in "Pages" the URL isn't shown even when there is no DOI (and I have the "Include for Paper Articles" ticked).

bwiernik

My recommendation is to always leave that setting checked at this point.

adamsmith

@bwiernik you mean checked or unchecked? (I'm assuming checked, right?)

bwiernik

Yes, sorry