1 minute read.Style Guides Recommend DOI strings
A couple of recent posts - from A couple of recent posts - from at Jefferson University and IFST at Univ of Delaware- note that the AMA and APA style guides now recommend using a DOI, if one is assigned, in a journal article citation.
A citation in the APA style with a DOI would be:
Conley, D., Pfeiffera, K. M., & Velez, M. (2007). Explaining sibling differences in achievement and behavioral outcomes: The importance of within- and between-family factors. Social Science Research36(3), 1087-1104. doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2006.09.002
In the AMA style a reference would be:
Kitajima TS, Kawashima SA, Watanabe Y. The conserved kinetochore protein shugoshin protects centromeric cohesion during meiosis. Nature. 2004;427(6974):510-517. doi:10.1038/nature02312
This is great news. I haven’t looked at the full style guides but it’s not clear if information is given about linking DOIs via http://dx.doi.org/
Information on the APA Style Guide is available - http://apastyle.apa.org/ with specific info on electronic references, URLs and DOIs and here is the AMA info.
This raises the existential question of a DOI as a URI. Is
Conley, D., Pfeiffera, K. M., & Velez, M. (2007). Explaining sibling differences in achievement and behavioral outcomes: The importance of within- and between-family factors. Social Science Research36(3), 1087-1104. doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2006.09.002 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2006.09.002
unnecessary or redundant?
Further reading
- Mar 3, 2015 – Real-time Stream of DOIs being cited in Wikipedia
- Oct 11, 2012 – Crossref Metadata Search++
- Apr 17, 2012 – PDF-Extract
- Nov 28, 2011 – Turning DOIs into formatted citations
- Mar 20, 2009 – Citation Typing Ontology
- Dec 3, 2008 – Ubiquity commands for Crossref services
- Feb 9, 2008 – Crossref Citation Plugin (for WordPress)
- Jan 15, 2008 – CLADDIER Final Report
