APA Style Changes

Students and faculty be aware! There have been some official changes made to APA Style – the style which many of us use when writing a reference list for a paper.

Here are a couple of links:

  • Electronic Media and URLs
    The official word from the APA. http://www.apastyle.org/elecmedia.html
  • APA Style Reference Formats
    Brief review of the changes plus examples galore. http://www.nmu.edu/library/apastyle.htm
  • One major change is that the issue number should always be used, not just when each issue starts with page one.

    “For journal articles, always include the journal issue number (if available) along with the volume number, regardless of whether the journal is paginated separately by issue or continuously by volume. This change in reference style from the fifth edition of the Publication Manual is intended to make the format for journal article references more consistent.” (http://www.apastyle.org/elecmedia.html paragraph 5, accessed 31 August 2007)
    This also makes finding electronically available journal articles much easier.

    The Library is purchasing the APA Style Guide to Electronic Resources (2007) and will place it on Reserve with the main volume of the Publication Manual (2001).

    Thanks to Mary Marix, reference librarian, for pointing out these important changes!