Adding DOI in APA style reference list of elsarticle class

Question

I prepared an article using elsarticle class (elsevier) template, however the journal required the references to (i) cited as author-year within the text and (ii) listed alphabetically by author name in the reference list section. For this I used the APA style bibliography (along with authoryear document class). However, in the reference list the DOI is not included, provided I already added DOI for some of the references in the bibtex library. Is there any easy workaround for this problem?

Answer 1

The Elsevier document classes provide three bibliography styles to be used with them. Their Author/Year style is elsarticle-harv, so that is the correct bibliography style to use. The class will load the natbib package itself. For more details see the documentation for the class.

\documentclass[authoryear]{elsarticle}
\bibliographystyle{elsarticle-harv}
\begin{document}
...
\bibliography{<yourbibfile>}
\end{document}