during this week we learned new topic, which are two types of online journals: those that are found exclusively on the web, and those that are available in both print and electronic form.  You are more likely to encounter the first situation.

Everything up to the volume number occurs exactly the same as if you were citing a journal article.  However, since the article is online, a “retrieval statement” is required.

Retrieval statements always begin with the word retrieved, offer the full name of the month, date, and year, with commas after the date and after the year, followed by “from” and the URL.  Notice how the URL is neither underlined nor blue. 

In A P A documentation and in text citation, underlines are not used.  To get rid of a hyperlink in MS Word, place your cursor after the last word in the URL and hit the backspace key.  This should remove the hyperlink without deleting words.  If a URL is long and needs to be divided between two lines, you can break it after a slash or before a period.

Finally, notice that no period appears at the end of an online entry that concludes with a URL.  This is so that the wrong address is not accidentally entered into the web browser.

A quick look at the form for journals online and in print.  In these situations, you would treat the article as you would for a journal article, except  you would include the words “electronic version” in brackets, to indicate that you read and used the electronic form instead of the hard copy.

Documenting online journal

Model:

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of article. Title of Journal, volume number. Retrieved month date, year, from http://www.someaddress.com/full/url/

Sample:

Kenneth, I. A. (2000). A Buddhist response to the nature of human rights. Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 8. Retrieved February 20, 2001, from http://www.cac.psu.edu/jbe/twocont.html

Print and Online:

Whitmeyer, J.M. (2000). Power through appointment [Electronic version]. Social Science Research, 29, 535-555.

APA formatting and style guide – The OWL at Purdue. (2007). Purdue University Online Writing Lab. Retrieved October 01, 2007, from http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

Documenting websites

Model for an authored document that is a whole site:

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of article/document. Retrieved month date, year, from http://Web address

Model for an authored page/article from a site:

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of article/document. Title of Site. Retrieved month date, year, from http://www.someaddress.com/full/url/

Sample (no author, article found on resource website):

Nebraska school nurse honored during 100th Anniversary Celebration.  (2007).  Answers4Families.  Retrieved September 26, 2007, from http://nncf.unl.edu/ nurses/info/anniversary.html

No Author?  List page title or article title first.  No page title?  List site title.