==== Formatting of DOIs in APA style ====

The 6th edition of the //Publication manual of the American Psychological Association// calls for journal articles with DOIs to be formatted with the DOI preceded by doi:, for example
> Herbst, D. M., Griffith, N. R.,  & Slama, K. M. (2014). Rodeo cowboys: Conforming to masculine norms and help-seeking behaviors for depression. //Journal of Rural Mental Health//, //38//, 20–35. doi:10.1037/rmh0000008

In 2012, the APA updated these recommendations in the //[[http://www.apastyle.org/products/4210512.aspx|APA Style Guide to Electronic References]]// and now prefers linking dois through a resolver, for example

>Herbst, D. M., Griffith, N. R.,  & Slama, K. M. (2014). Rodeo cowboys: Conforming to masculine norms and help-seeking behaviors for depression. //Journal of Rural Mental Health//, //38//, 20–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rmh0000008

The [[http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2014/07/how-to-use-the-new-doi-format-in-apa-style.html|APAStyle blog post]] (where these examples are drawn from)  explains these changes in more detail. Instead of the ''dx.doi.org'' resolver, the APA style provided by the [[http://www.citationstyles.org|Citation Style Language (CSL)]] and used in Zotero uses ''doi.org'', so that the above citation would be:

>Herbst, D. M., Griffith, N. R.,  & Slama, K. M. (2014). Rodeo cowboys: Conforming to masculine norms and help-seeking behaviors for depression. //Journal of Rural Mental Health//, //38//, 20–35. http://doi.org/10.1037/rmh0000008

This resolver is [[http://www.doi.org/doi_handbook/3_Resolution.html#3.7.3|prefered by doi.org]], will be recommended by CrossRef [[https://twitter.com/epentz/status/660066468445442048|in the future]], and is functionally equivalent to the longer (and older) version. In [[https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/47374/doi-in-apa-6edition/#Item_5|direct correspondence with the CSL team]], APA experts agreed with this modification and provided the following response:

> This DOI world is constantly changing, and APA formulated its guideline to use the ''%%http://dx.doi.org%%'' prefix based on the recommendation of CrossRef.org. CrossRef still specifies that this is the format to use; I am unaware as to whether they know that the doi.org site suggests a simpler format. Certainly as long as the DOI resolves you have satisfied the purpose of the reference, and in the future I wouldn’t be surprised if all publishers officially endorsed the shorter form. In the meantime, if you want to be a stickler for the rules, the dx.doi format is the one that’s officially endorsed.
>
> Best regards,
> 
> The APA Style Expert Team

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