I’m using Endnote 7.7 for Mac and want to insert the access/retrieval date in my references for all sources I’ve taken from the Internet. I’m using APA 6th. I understand that APA guidelines no longer require a retrieval data in all cases, but the institution I am writing for wants me to.
I searched the community and found some helpful instructions on how to edit the template for references. I went into “Edit Output Style” for APA 6th, and selected reference type “Electronic Article”. I positioned my cursor after “Retrieved from” and then clicked on “Date Accessed” from the “Insert Field” menu. I then saved this change as a new style, “APA 6th Copy”. I went back into my Word document to see whether this change was reflected in my references, updating the bibliography in the new style. What I got for my “Electronic Article” was a new reference with the words “Date Accessed” inserted - not the actual date I have entered in the Date Accessed field for that reference in my Endnote library, but the words “Date Accessed”. Can anyone suggest why that’s happened, and how I might be able to get Endnote to produce the reference that I need?
Standard APA 6th Output Style bibliography settings for Electonic Articles are:
Author. (Year). Title|. [Reviewed Item]|. Periodical Title, Volume|(Issue)|, Pages|.| Retrieved from Website Title website: |URL| doi:DOI
I want my bibliography entry to read: Retrieved March 22, 2012 from…
Previously, when trying to edit the template, I had positioned the cursor for “insert field” between Retrieved and from, so the settings read Retrieved Date Accessed from Website Title website… which didn’t work as I wanted.
I realised that I need to close and re-open the quotation marks in order for the desired access-date field, and not the words “Date Accessed” to appear in the reference. I’ve done this now, and it seems to work fine. The Output Setting style now reads:
Author. (Year). Title|. [Reviewed Item]|. Periodical Title, Volume|(Issue)|, Pages|.| Retrieved Date Accessed from Website Title website: |URL| doi:DOI
Standard APA 6th Output Style bibliography settings for Electonic Articles are:
Author. (Year). Title|. [Reviewed Item]|. Periodical Title, Volume|(Issue)|, Pages|.| Retrieved from Website Title website: |URL| doi:DOI
I want my bibliography entry to read: Retrieved March 22, 2012 from…
Previously, when trying to edit the template, I had positioned the cursor for “insert field” between Retrieved and from, so the settings read Retrieved Date Accessed from Website Title website… which didn’t work as I wanted.
I realised that I need to close and re-open the quotation marks in order for the desired access-date field, and not the words “Date Accessed” to appear in the reference. I’ve done this now, and it seems to work fine. The Output Setting style now reads:
Author. (Year). Title|. [Reviewed Item]|. Periodical Title, Volume|(Issue)|, Pages|.| Retrieved Date Accessed from Website Title website: |URL| doi:DOI