A new EndNote style for APA 6th edition is available for download from the EndNote website.
The download is a zip file which contains the new output style, a modified Reference Types Table, and a PDF document giving instructions on where to save the style and how to import the reference types table.
The modified reference types table will be a problem for people who have already modified their reference types, because it will overwrite all of their changes. It provides a new “Electronic Book Section” reference type, and it introduces some other new fields, such as “Website Title.”
The new style seems to cope fairly well with normal journal articles. If you have the DOI in the DOI field of your references, it doesn’t matter whether you use the Journal Article or Electronic Article reference type.
However if the journal article was accessed electronically, but doesn’t have a DOI, you must use the Electronic Article reference type and identify the home page of the journal, and put that in the URL field.
Perhaps most people will just pretend that they accessed the articles in printed form?
There is a problem with references which have more than seven authors (which is fairly common nowadays). While the provisions for entering multiple authors in the text of the document have not changed, the provisions for the reference list specify that when a work has more than seven authors, you should list the first six authors, followed by the three points of omission, followed by the name of the last author, e.g.:
Gilbert, D. G., McLennan, J. F., Rabinovich, N. E., Sugai, C., Plath, L. C., Asgaard, G., … Boutros, N. (2004)
EndNote currently has no capacity for formatting references like this.
The most relevant sections of the 6th edition of the APA manual have been scanned and are available for download by UQ staff and students from our Referencing Styles page.
