Comments on: Do You Have the Right Style? http://neoacademic.com/2009/10/14/do-you-have-the-right-style/ technology, education and training research from an industrial/organizational (I/O) psychologist in the ivory tower Sat, 04 May 2013 15:02:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Richard N. Landers http://neoacademic.com/2009/10/14/do-you-have-the-right-style/#comment-439 Richard N. Landers Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:03:08 +0000 http://neoacademic.com/?p=427#comment-439 I think DOIs are only provided by organizations that use the DOI system, which includes most academic journals. It means you can do things like look up articles by DOI here: http://dx.doi.org/

For example, if you go that address and copy/paste the Kirk/Spock DOI (10.1207/s15327965pli0302_13), it will direct you to the web page associated with that DOI/article. The advantage to the system is that even if the page itself moves, the DOI should point correctly, which should prevent obsolete links from appearing in reference lists. I think the rationale for its use is for journals that don’t use the volume/issue/page number system (increasingly common in online-only journals).

]]> By: George A Guajardo http://neoacademic.com/2009/10/14/do-you-have-the-right-style/#comment-438 George A Guajardo Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:31:21 +0000 http://neoacademic.com/?p=427#comment-438 DOI? This is the first I have heard of it. I feel my expertise in manuscript editing slipping through my fingers. Where might I find a doi for this page?

]]> By: Richard N. Landers http://neoacademic.com/2009/10/14/do-you-have-the-right-style/#comment-437 Richard N. Landers Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:11:21 +0000 http://neoacademic.com/?p=427#comment-437 The only “what’s new” piece I could find is this one: http://www.apastyle.org/learn/tutorials/brief-guide.aspx

…which of course doesn’t tell you much more than “the new edition is great, go buy it!” But I bet if you buy it, there’s a “what’s different” page!

I know one of the more contentious changes is that all sources located online now require a digital object identifier (DOI) code in their citation, which theoretically applies to every source you don’t physically locate. Which seems pretty stupid to me. Example from a random webpage I found:

Devine, P. G., & Sherman, S. J. (1992). Intuitive versus rational judgment and the role of stereotyping in the human condition: Kirk or Spock? Psychological Inquiry, 3(2), 153-159. doi:10.1207/s15327965pli0302_13

]]> By: George A Guajardo http://neoacademic.com/2009/10/14/do-you-have-the-right-style/#comment-436 George A Guajardo Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:43:49 +0000 http://neoacademic.com/?p=427#comment-436 A lot of this caught me by surprise. I wonder if there is any place we can find out exactly what changed. I can’t for the life of me identify what needed to change. I hope the changes are more substantial than simply underlining everything that was once italicized.

Did we really need a new version of the manual?

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