Bibliography entry containing <>

Question

Using BibTeX, I'm trying to add a DOI 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0118(199902)30:2<71::AID-JGT1>3.0.CO;2-G to my bibliography. However, the presence of the < and > characters causes problems.

Is there a good way to add such a DOI?

I'm using a bibliography style which has been processed with urlbst to support DOI and URL fields. My current workaround is to drop the DOI field. Instead I add a field

url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-0118(199902)30:2<71::AID-JGT1>3.0.CO;2-G},

which seems to work, but it would be preferable to use the DOI directly.

Answer 1

The actual solution to OP's problem is to encode the < and > signs as their hexadecimal representation:

the "smaller than sign" becomes %3C

the "larger than sign" becomes %3E

If you do this together (!) with using the doi package the links in the bibliography will actually work. More information including other nasty characters can be found here

http://www.doi.org/doi_handbook/2_Numbering.html#2.2

and here

http://www.doi.org/syntax.html

Failing to do this will result in broken links no matter what.

Answer 2

There is the doi package that gives you the command \doi{...} that will probably do exactly what you want.

Answer 3

I was having similar problems with underscores in doi's, and found that using BibLaTeX solved the problem.