APA citation and DOI's

jennifer.gadarowski
When using APA 6, DOI's are are added to the bibliography as "http://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkv297" rather than "doi:10.1093/jac/dkv297."

The correct APA citation for DOI"s is the second version without http..., how can this be fixed without having to go back and manually edit each citation?

Thanks,
Jennifer
  • adamsmith
    that's incorrect. As of the APA Guide to Electronic Sources, published 2012, both versions are permitted, the http version recommended. (APA uses the more outdated dx.doi.org resolver, but has signaled that both DOI resolvers URLs are acceptable).
  • nbadcock
    Hi Adam,

    Would you be able to post a link to the guide that you mention? I found this:
    http://www.apastyle.org/manual/related/electronic-sources.pdf
    but couldn't clearly see reference to or examples of the http format. The 2012 book I've got seems to only indicate the 'doi:' format (page 198 for examples).

    Thanks,
    Nic
  • adamsmith
    may have misremembered where APA specifies this; they do so on their blog:
    http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/digital-object-identifier-doi/
    and in various individual correspondences. I thought it was also in some supplement, but I could be misremembering that.
  • nbadcock
    edited February 11, 2016
    Perfect - that link's very clear on both versions being accepted.

    Thanks
  • adamsmith
    nope, didn't misremember. It's in the 2012 book, you can find an (unauthorized but afaict complete) online copy at
    http://www.misericordia.edu/uploaded/documents/library/Books/APAStyle.pdf?1436800286903

    What you're referring to is the 6th edition of the manual, which was published in 2009(?)
  • nbadcock
    You're right again - my manual claims to be the 6th printing (2012) with a 2010 Copyright.

    Thanks for your time on this - very useful.
  • ozgur404
    edited February 16, 2016
    however according to the link, correct and incorrect
    http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/digital-object-identifier-doi/


    Correct:

    doi:10.1037/rmh0000008
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rmh0000008


    Incorrect:

    http://doi:10.1037/rmh0000008
    doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rmh0000008

    So it seems that zotero creat incorrect way
    Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rmh0000008
  • adamsmith
    Zotero would only do Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rmh0000008 if you don't have a DOI for the item in the Zotero data, only a URL (that happens to be the resolved DOI, which is confusing you).
  • ozgur404
    Yes I am still confuse. I wrote Doi number when I edit the source in zotero. and when I do my rerefernces, it pull the doi this way:

    http://doi.org/10.1177/0969733014533234

    so there is "dx" missing in order to be correct.
  • adamsmith
    both are correct. See my note above:
    (APA uses the more outdated dx.doi.org resolver, but has signaled that both DOI resolvers URLs are acceptable).
  • ozgur404
    Thanks !! I will try this way and see if my proffesor will try to cut off point :)
  • bwiernik
    Here is the note from APA customer serivice regarding DOI URLs:
    https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/47374/doi-in-apa-6edition/#Item_5
  • zuphilip
    @bwiernik, @adamsmith: I copied and paste the information in a new kb page: https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/doi_in_apa . Maybe you can help to improve that text and make it understandable?
  • bwiernik
    Thanks. I'd been meaning to do that.
  • adamsmith
    thank you @zuphilip. I turned this into a single, nice-looking text with examples.
  • ozgur404
    Today, I recognized that the APA 6ed style, doesn't retrieve the website the articles without DOI. For example my juornal article did not have doi and the bibliography did not include the website even the website data was entered into Zotero.
  • adamsmith
    We'd need a bit more info about that, example which website, etc.
  • ozgur404
    I read some other post and it states, if there is a page numbers entered, than the software doesn't pull the URL, I just erased the page number part in the zotero and the bibliography become correct. but it is interesting that why it doesnt pull URL if there is not DOI present regardless of page numbers entered or not.

    with page number entered (orignal saved)

    Klein, R. (2014). On deactivating pacemakers and ICDs. Ethics & Medics, 39(11), 1–2.

    I erased pg numbers and refresh:

    Klein, R. (2014). On deactivating pacemakers and ICDs. Ethics & Medics, 39(11). Retrieved from http://ezproxy.delhi.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=98985087&site=eds-live
  • adamsmith
    You shouldn't cite print sources with URL, even if you retrieved them online. The first citation (i.e. what Zotero does) is correct.
  • ozgur404
    Thanks for clarification. I did not know that rule.
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