Online magazines and journal articles

joanfigueroa
APA requires the "retrieved from" information of any online article but Zotero does not include that information in the reference list.
Help, please.
  • bwiernik
    For journal articles, APA does not generally require "Retrieved from". Could you show the specific citation where you expect it to appear?
  • Sajid Nadeem
    I am also facing this issue. Zotero is not showing retrieved from information.
    e.g. the correct APA 6th citation for this article(as in GALE database) is

    Scotti, D., & Dresner, M. (2015). The impact of baggage fees on passenger demand on US air routes. Transport Policy, 43, 4+. Retrieved from http://vlib.interchange.at/login?url=http://go.galegroup.com.vlib.interchange.at/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA432101527&v=2.1&u=wash89460&it=r&p=AONE&asid=a0454fe5aeb039eafd8750c7c3d08a84

    After importing all the metadata through Zotero firefox addon which includes the URL and accessed date, the bibliography which actually shows is:

    Scotti, D., & Dresner, M. (2015). The impact of baggage fees on passenger demand on US air routes. Transport Policy, 43, 4+.
  • bwiernik
    As I say above, correct APA style does not typically require "Retrieved from" for journal articles. Even when you include a URL, you would not cite something like the GALE database. Instead, you would cite the homepage of the journal (the official APA policy) or the webpage of the actual article (what everyone actually does in practice).

    For your particular example, including a base URL would certainly be incorrect. The article has a DOI number, which is always preferred in APA style.

    The correct citation for this reference is:

    Scotti, D., & Dresner, M. (2015). The impact of baggage fees on passenger demand on US air routes. Transport Policy, 43, 4-10. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2015.05.017

    You should enter the DOI number (10.1016/j.tranpol.2015.05.017) in the DOI field in Zotero.

    (Note, you would also never use "4+" for page numbers in an APA citation--always list the full page range)
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