APA Style Citations from PsycINFO
A student asked me recently if there is a way to get APA Style citations for articles indexed in PsycINFO. She knew she could export the article information to RefWorks and then print out a bibliography, but she wanted the citation directly from PsycINFO.
Many databases will give you citations to their articles; some give you options for several different styles. Most are pretty straightforward about how to do this. But often the links are hidden.
In PsycINFO, you should either click on the box next to the one or several articles you’re interested in or open the record for the article. Then, click on the SAVE link above the list of articles. When the Save page opens, change the drop down menu to “Citation in APA Style.” Save the citations to a text or HTML file and you have your citations!
In databases on the CSA Illumna platform (Linguistics and Language Behavior, Sociological Abstracts, ERIC, PAIS International, and Criminal Justice Abstracts), you can set up a bibliography in several different citation styles.
Just click on the articles of interest to you. Click on “Save, Print, Email” above the results list. On the next page, choose whether you’d like a bibliography of only your marked records (those you’ve clicked on) or all of those that were found.
Skip the comments box, choose whether you’d like the bibliography in HTML, Text, RTF, or MS Word formats. Then choose one of several citation styles: APA, the American Medical Association, Chicago, Harvard, MLA, or Turabian. Click on Create and you’ve got a bibliography of the articles you’ve just found.
They suggest you “check your references for accuracy.” I must agree. I ran a practice bibliography in APA Style and noticed that 2 of the 4 citations didn’t include volume numbers, required for APA Style. They also didn’t include the DOI which APA now requires. And it includes the sentence “Retrieved from www.csa.com.” APA no longer requires or suggests this. It looks like the citation format is based on an older version of APA.
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