[WEB4LIB] use of DOIs in citing

[Hammond, Tony]

Hi Jennifer:

I don't know if this is of any help, but CrossRef have specific guidelines

	http://www.crossref.org/02publishers/15doi_guidelines.html

About 2/3 of the way down there is a section on 'Use and Display of DOIs':

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DOIs do not replace traditional bibliographical citations but are a very
useful addition, especially if articles are published online with volume,
issue, and page numbers. For example, in the CrossRef application, a
citation of the Science article with a DOI would be: 

Kornack, D. Rakic, P. (2001). Cell Proliferation Without Neurogenesis in
Adult Primate Neocortex. Science. 294 (5549), 2127-2130,
doi:10.1126/science.1065467. 
A citation to a Nature article published in the Advanced Online Publication
process without volume, issue or page number would be: 

"Cell Biology: A cat cloned by nuclear transplantation" Nature AOP,
Published Online: 14 February 2002, doi:10.1038/nature723. 
###

Note that CrossRef practice - as exemplified by many online and print
journal articles - is to cite DOIs in regular URI form (i.e. lowercase,
colon, no space - doi:10...).

This info is also repeated in the DOI Handbook from the International DOI
Foundation, see
	
	http://www.doi.org/handbook_2000/enumeration.html#2.6

Cheers,

Tony



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> Dear Colleagues, 
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> I was wondering if you knew of any (official) style 
> guidelines for the use 
> of DOIs in the citing of online journal articles (and other similar 
> documentation)? 
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> This is for an intranet web page I am developing to give advice to my 
> research staff on the citing of online or digital information. 
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> Jennifer 
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