APA 6th edition
A new EndNote style for APA 6th edition is available for
download from the EndNote
website.
The download is a zip file which contains the new output style, a
modified Reference Types Table, and a PDF document giving
instructions on where to save the style and how to import the
reference types table.
The modified reference types table will be a problem for people who
have already modified their reference types, because it will
overwrite all of their changes. It provides a new "Electronic Book
Section" reference type, and it introduces some other new fields,
such as "Website Title."
The new style seems to cope fairly well with normal journal
articles. If you have the DOI in the DOI field of your references,
it doesn't matter whether you use the Journal Article or Electronic
Article reference type.
However if the journal article was accessed electronically, but
doesn't have a DOI, you must use the Electronic Article reference
type and identify the home page of the journal, and put that in the
URL field.
Perhaps most people will just pretend that they accessed the
articles in printed form?
There is a problem with references which have more than seven
authors (which is fairly common nowadays). While the provisions for
entering multiple authors in the text of the document have not
changed, the provisions for the reference list specify that when a
work has more than seven authors, you should list the first six
authors, followed by the three points of omission, followed by the
name of the last author, e.g.:
Gilbert, D. G., McLennan, J. F., Rabinovich, N. E., Sugai, C.,
Plath, L. C., Asgaard, G., ... Boutros, N. (2004)
EndNote currently has no capacity for formatting references like
this.
The most relevant sections of the 6th edition of the APA manual
have been scanned and are available for download by UQ staff and
students from our Referencing
Styles page.
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