I have
been grading a lot of student papers lately, and, as always, one of the most
frequent errors in the reference list is providing issue numbers for journals
where pagination is by volume rather than by issue. I am starting to think
that issue numbers really should be provided in all cases, regardless of whether
the journal is paginated by issue or by volume. I retrieve most articles
online these days, rather than in hardcopy, and it is often the case that
knowing the issue number is helpful when dealing with an electronic publication
database -- to get to the desired article one often needs to click on the issue
number first, and these databases do not always list, at that point, both issue
number and the range of pages for each issue number. If others agree that
issue numbers should always be provided, what is your estimate of how long it
will take the APA to alter that rule of reference lists?
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Karl L. Wuensch, Professor,
Dept. of Psychology
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