Probably by the next edition of the style manual. You make a great argument; 
we just have to find out who the right person(s) is to inform and as many 
folks as possible make the argument to them. I bet someone on this list knows 
who might be the 'right' person(s).

So far, at least IMHO, the style manual has been excellent at accomodating 
changes in technology as they affect facilitating the preparation of 
manuscripts.

Annette

Quoting "Wuensch, Karl L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

>     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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