Wikipedia:Digital Object Identifier
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A There are several ways to cite a reference via DOI. In general, you should avoid entering explicit URLs to the doi.org website. By using one of the following methods, the actual links are centrally managed and can be adjusted if the external website alters the way the URLs must be formatted.
A wiki-formatted link, for example:
Is handled and displayed as:
A DOI is not case-sensitive.
This is an alternative way to generate a link to the article.
gives:
It generates an external URL link rather than a wikilink. In addition, the "doi:" string is displayed as a separate link (to the Wikipedia citations (including DOI) can be generated from the DOI by several citation tools such as Citer. Many tools can generate a full citation from a variety of reference IDs, e.g. DOI, ISBN, PMID, PMCID, OCLC.
Note that these Wikipedia guidelines do not conform to revised DOI display guidelines issued by CrossRef, which recommend displaying DOIs in URL format, for example,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iheduc.2008.03.001[1]
This approach avoids a number of common issues with citations in Wikipedia:
It may be better to use other identifiers instead; for example where content is freely available, generally {{PMC}} and {{PMID}} -based links will link to both free content and non-free content, while the DOI links are sometimes only to paywall-restricted content. How to use DOIs in content
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Generating citations
Why use DOI?
When not to use DOI
References
External links