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This guide is based on rules from the 5th edition of the APA Publication Manual, 2001, with my further recommendations for problems not covered by this style guide. These examples are for students at University of South Alabama to use in their class research papers and therefore take into consideration ways to make it easier for instructors to track down the articles cited. My recommendations may not be appropriate for nationally published papers.
This guide only covers a few databases, but is a work in progress. If you find it of any value and encounter other problems, let me know what they are and I will try to give examples and alleviate the frustration both faculty and students have with these strange new formats. Jan Sauer
1. InfoTrac's Expanded Academic ASAP: This is what its citations can look like on screen:
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a. This is how to cite it according to APA:
Iiacqua, J. A., Schumacker, P., & Li, H. C. (1995). Factors contributing to job satisfaction in higher education. Education 116. Retrieved April 19, 2002, from Expanded Academic ASAP database.
Note: APA has no examples for items without the number of the final page. My recommendation is for students to either put 51+ as the page number or just delete it totally. If you don't know the number of the last page, do not make it up.
b. My recommendation would be to cite it this way:
Iiacqua, J. A., Schumacker, P., & Li, H. C. (1995). Factors contributing to job satisfaction in higher education. Education 116, 51+. Retrieved April 19, 2002, from InfoTrac's Expanded Academic ASAP database.
Note: APA just asks for the name of the database. I highly recommend that the students put the name of the company or collection which contains the database.
Note: Without exact page numbers available, don't guess at the last page number of the article.
Note: Most academic journals are continuously paginated. That means that issue #1 of a volume starts with page one, issue #2 may start with page 165, issue #3 may start with 402, etc. When this is the case, the issue number is irrelevant and you can eliminate it. However, if you were to find an article starting on page 10 in issue #4, then include the issue number in parentheses after the volume # so the researcher would not have to look at page 10 in issue #1, #2 and #3 to find the article. Example:. . .xxxxxxxxxxxx, 26(4), 10+. . . .
Note: InfoTrac databases may also include full page pdf files. See Ebsco's full page image citation below for this style.
2. EBSCO's Academic Search Elite: This is what its citations may looks like:
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The APA citation style depends on which format you choose: full text or full page image.
For the "Full Text" Citation:
a. This is how to cite it according to APA:
Ren, W. (2000). Attending to the relational aspects of the faculty citation search. [Electronic Version] Journal of Academic Librarianship, 26(2). Retrieved April 17, 2002, from Academic Search Elite database.
Note: APA has no examples for items without the number of the final page. My recommendation is for students to either put 119+ as the page number or just delete it totally. If you don't know the number of the last page, do not make it up.
b. With my recommendations the citation would read:
Ren, W. (2000). Attending to the relational aspects of the faculty citation search. [Electronic Version] Journal of Academic Librarianship, 26, 119+. Retrieved April 17, 2002, from Ebsco's Academic Search Elite database.
Note: APA just asks for the name of the database. I highly recommend that the students put the name of the company or collection which contains the database.
Note: Most academic journals are continuously paginated. That means that issue #1 of a volume starts with page one, issue #2 may start with page 165, issue #3 may start with 402, etc. When this is the case, the issue number is irrelevant and you can eliminate it. However, if you were to find an article starting on page 10 in issue #4, then include the issue number so the researcher would not have to look at page 10 in issue #1, #2 and #3 to find the article.
Example:. . .xxxxxxxxxxxx, 26(4), 10+. . . .
2. For the "Full Page Image" Citation:
a. This is how to cite it according to APA:
Ren, W. (2000). Attending to the relational aspects of the faculty citation search. [Electronic Version] Journal of Academic Librarianship, 26, 119-123.
Note: Because the student has an exact image of the journal pages, it is cited as if it were printed, with the words "electronic version" added.
My recommendation would be to cite it this way:
Ren, W. (2000). Attending to the relational aspects of the faculty citation search. [Electronic Version] Journal of Academic Librarianship, 26, 119-123. Retrieved from Ebsco's Academic Search Elite.
Note: If the student were to indicate the company and database this article came from, it would save the instructor a lot of time locating it.
Note: Most academic journals are continuously paginated. That means that issue #1 of a volume starts with page one, issue #2 may start with page 165, issue #3 may start with 402, etc. When this is the case, the issue number is irrelevant and you can eliminate it. However, if you were to find an article starting on page 10 in issue #4, then include the issue number so the researcher would not have to look at page 10 in issue #1, #2 and #3 to find the article.
Example:. . .xxxxxxxxxxxx, 26(4), 10+. . . .
3. PsycInfo does not itself contain full-text articles. But this is what a PsycInfo citation looks like when it links to another database containing the full-text article. (See the fourth line from the bottom.)
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Note: Since this document is retrieved as a .pdf, APA style requires no more than to say Electronic Version in the citation.
a. This is a perfectly acceptable citation.
Evers, W., Tomic, W., & Brouwers, A. (2001). Effects of aggressive behavior and perceived self-efficacy on burnout among staff of homes for the elderly. [Electronic version] Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 22, 439-454.
b. I recommend that you do this instead:
Evers, W., Tomic, W., & Brouwers, A. (2001). Effects of aggressive behavior and perceived self-efficacy on burnout among staff of homes for the elderly. [Electronic version] Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 22, 439-454. Retrieved from Catchword via SilverPlatter's PsycInfo database.
Note: Most academic journals are continuously paginated. That means that issue #1 of a volume starts with page one, issue #2 may start with page 165, issue #3 may start with 402, etc. When this is the case, the issue number is irrelevant and you can eliminate it. However, if you were to find an article starting on page 10 in issue #4, then include the issue number so the researcher would not have to look at page 10 in issue #1, #2 and #3 to find the article.
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