New APA Guidelines for Electronic Sources

APA has recently published new formatting guidelines for reference citations for electronic resources. There are several changes you will want to know about --

1. When you are using an article that is identical to paper (pdf format), you need only to note [electronic format] after the article title -- no url or database name required.
2. When the document you are citing is unlikely to change, e.g., journal article, you no longer need to list a retrieval date. (Internet sites are always changing -- so continue with those urls. )
3. To identify electronic articles the "DOI", digital object identifier, is now preferred to the url.

For more details and some examples, see the Penfield Library handout or the APA website information on electronic resource citations.