
Reference Examples for Electronic Source Materials
Note: This material is extracted from the 5th edition of APA's
Publication Manual (© 2001).
Internet
articles based on a print source
Article
in an Internet-only journal
Article
in an Internet-only newsletter
Stand-alone
document, no author identified, no date
Document
available on university program or department Web site
Electronic
copy of a journal article, three to five authors, retrieved from database
Periodicals
71. Internet articles based on a print source
At present, the majority of the articles retrieved from online publications
in psychology and the behavioral sciences are exact duplicates of those in their
print versions and are unlikely to have additional analyses and data attached.
This is likely to change in the future. In the meantime, the same basic primary
journal reference (see Examples 15) can be used, but if you have viewed the article
only in its electronic form, you should add in brackets after the article title
"Electronic version" as in the following fictitious example:
VandenBos, G., Knapp, S., & Doe, J. (2001). Role
of reference elements |
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in the selection of resources by psychology undergraduates [Electronic
version]. Journal of Bibliographic Research, 5, 117-123. |
If you are referencing an online article that you have reason
to believe has been changed (e.g., the format differs from the print version or
page numbers are not indicated) or that includes additional data or commentaries,
you will need to add the date you retrieved the document and the URL.
VandenBos, G., Knapp, S., & Doe, J. (2001). Role
of reference elements |
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in the selection of resources by psychology undergraduates. Journal
of Bibliographic Research, 5, 117-123. Retrieved October 13, 2001, from http://jbr.org/articles.html
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72. Article in an Internet-only journal
Fredrickson, B. L. (2000, March 7). Cultivating positive
emotions to |
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optimize health and well-being. Prevention & Treatment, 3,
Article 0001a. Retrieved November 20, 2000, from http://journals.apa.org/prevention/volume3/pre0030001a.html
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74. Article in an Internet-only newsletter
Glueckauf, R. L., Whitton, J., Baxter, J., Kain,
J., Vogelgesang, S., |
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Hudson, M., et al. (1998, July). Videocounseling for families
of rural teens with epilepsy -- Project update. Telehealth News,2(2). Retrieved
from http://www.telehealth.net/subscribe/newslettr4a.html1 |
- Use the complete publication date given on the article.
- Note that there are no page numbers.
- In an Internet periodical, volume and issue numbers often are not relevant.
If they are not used, the name of the periodical is all that can be provided in
the reference.
- Whenever possible, the URL should link directly to the article.
- Break a URL that goes to another line after a slash or before a period. Do
not insert (or allow your word-processing program to insert) a hyphen at the break.
Nonperiodical documents on the Internet
77. Stand-alone document, no author identified, no date
GVU's 8th WWW user survey. (n.d.). Retrieved
August 8, 2000, from |
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http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/usersurveys/survey1997-10/ |
- If the author of a document is not identified, begin the reference with the
title of the document.
78. Document available on university program or department Web site
Chou, L., McClintock, R., Moretti, F., Nix, D. H.
(1993). Technology and |
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education: New wine in new bottles: Choosing pasts and imagining
educational futures. Retrieved August 24, 2000, from Columbia University,
Institute for Learning Technologies Web site: http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/papers/newwine1.html
|
- If a document is contained within a large and complex Web site (such as that
for a university or a government agency), identify the host organization and the
relevant program or department before giving the URL for the document itself.
Precede the URL with a colon.
Other Electronic Sources
88. Electronic copy of a journal article, three to five
authors, retrieved from database
Borman, W. C., Hanson, M. A., Oppler, S. H., Pulakos,
E. D., & White, |
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L. A. (1993). Role of early supervisory experience in supervisor
performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 78, 443-449. Retrieved October
23, 2000, from PsycARTICLES database. |
- When referencing material obtained by searching an aggregated database, follow
the format appropriate to the work retrieved and add a retrieval statement that
gives the date of retrieval and the proper name of the database.
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