How do I reference a database using APA formatting?

Asked by Ame_Evil (3051

) April 17th, 2010

I have checked the Perdue OWL guide and none of them seemed to directly apply.

What I want to reference is this website which I used to select a list of words for my experiment:

http://www.psy.uwa.edu.au/mrcdatabase/uwa_mrc.htm

I was going to use the authors names, but I cannot find them anywhere on the site. So I was wondering if there was a way to reference just the site itself?

I was thinking something along the lines of:

Machine Readable Dictionary. Website: http://www.psy.uwa.edu.au/mrcdatabase/uwa_mrc.htm

So has anyone done anything like this and can help? I’ll search for the authors names some more in the mean while.

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I found the original creater of the database:

Coltheart, M. (1981b). The MRC Psycholinguistic Database. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 33A, 497–505.

How could I link the website used to the above reference?

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Do you have word 2007? It has a format for electronic sources, web pages, and other stuff which you just fill out.

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@Trillian Thanks for the advice, but I would prefer to know how to do it manually. I kind of have already started with half of my sources so it wouldn’t be ideal to swich to using that. Also I don’t want to change my working habit.

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Ok, try this link

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Coltheart, M. (1981b). The MRC Psycholinguistic Database [Electronic version]. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 33A, 497–505. Retrieved April 17,2010, from http://www.psy.uwa.edu.au/mrcdatabase/uwa_mrc.htm

substitute date you retrieved it. From fifth edition of Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, References, Periodicals, 71.Internet articles based on a print source.

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