APA Formatting: Source

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The source information is the section that can vary the most, depending on what the source is.

It can include information such as:

DOI numbers 

A DOI (digital object identifier) is a unique code assigned to scholarly / academic publications. It provides a persistent link to the online version of a document.

When you find a DOI number, it can be sitting on its own like this:

When putting it in a reference, you need to add it to https://doi.org/ so it should look like this:

The source information is the section that can vary the most, depending on what the source is.

It can include information such as:

• Book publisher/s name, and DOI.
• Journal name, volume, issue, and page numbers, and DOI.
• Website name and URL.
• Edited book editors, title of the book, page numbers of the chapter, and DOI.

DOI numbers 

A DOI (digital object identifier) is a unique code assigned to scholarly / academic publications. It provides a persistent link to the online version of a document.

When you find a DOI number, it can be sitting on its own like this:

When putting it in a reference, you need to add it to https://doi.org/ so it should look like this:

For a book or print source, all you need in the source section is the name of the publisher, like so:

If the author and the publisher are the same, you do not include it twice, so the reference would look like so:

If there are multiple publishers listed, all must be included in the order shown on the item and separated by colons.

Ebooks do not need a URL, but should include the DOI if there is one.

For a journal article, the source details are the journal title, volume number, issue number, page numbers, and DOI number (if there is one), and would look like this:

If any of these elements are missing, then do not include them in the reference, only include what you can.

Do not include database names, or any URL with 'ezproxy' in it.

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For web based sources, the source details would be the name of the website where the page is based, plus the URL, like so:

If the website name is the same as the author, remove it from the reference, and have it only in the author field.

Hyperlinks 

It is up to you as to whether to add hyperlinks to the URLs in your reference list. The only guideline is that you need to be consistent i.e. they should all have hyperlinks or none, not some with and some without.