DOI in IEEEtran bibliography

Question

The IEEE Citation Reference specifies that a DOI should be provided for electronic articles without page numbers. However, IEEEtran.bst appears to provide no such functionality. What is the best way to get DOI numbers in the bibliography?

Bonus if the solution also

• optionally makes display of DOI conditional on a lack of page numbers for conference proceedings only; and/or
• hyperlinks the DOI (e.g. through the doi or uri packages).

I'll accept a solution that involves editing IEEEtran.bst—this is the approach I'm working on now—but would prefer one that doesn't, if possible.

Answer 1

I've created a patch to IEEEtranN.bst that does the trick, including the "bonus" features.

Answer 2

I use this approach to hyperlink the article title:

First, copy IEEEtran.bst to IEEEtranDOI.bst.

In the ENTRY field around line 250, add a line like this:

  dayfiled
+ doi
  edition

In the FUNCTION {format.article.title} field around line 1400, add a line like this:

  "title" bibinfo.check
+ doi empty$ {} { "\href{https://doi.org/" doi * "}{" * swap$ * "}" * } if$
  duplicate$ empty$ 'skip$

Then use \usepackage{hyperref} and \bibliographystyle{IEEEtranDOI} and it should work. Use \usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref} if you like hyperlinks invisible.

This is a patch I created for today's IEEEtran.bst using diff -c IEEEtran.bst IEEEtranDOI.bst:

*** IEEEtran.bst        2015-08-26 16:56:09.000000000 -0400
--- IEEEtranDOI.bst     2016-01-20 14:17:48.216975400 -0500
***************
*** 262,267 ****
--- 262,268 ----
      chapter
      day
      dayfiled
+     doi
      edition
      editor
      howpublished
***************
*** 1419,1424 ****
--- 1420,1426 ----
      }
    if$
    "title" bibinfo.check
+   doi empty$ {} { "\href{https://doi.org/" doi * "}{" * swap$ * "}" * } if$
    duplicate$ empty$ 'skip$
      { quote.close 'this.status.quote :=
        is.last.char.not.punct

And here's an MWE to test your IEEEtranDOI.bst:

\documentclass{IEEEtran}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
    @article{Example,
        author = {Author, The},
        doi = {10.1000/182},
        journal = {Awesome Journal},
        title = {{This is the title, click to go to doi}},
        year = {2016},
    }
\end{filecontents}
\begin{document}
    \nocite{*}
    \bibliographystyle{IEEEtranDOI}
    \bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}

Answer 3

I found a simple trick to do in MS word without installing or configuring anything extra:

Just add doi in Year field separated by comma. For example:

Year: Aug. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TSE.2023.3287297

This gives me following result:

Y. A. e. al., "Decomposition of Monolith Applications Into Microservices Architectures: A Systematic Review," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 49, no. 8, pp. 4213-4242, Aug. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TSE.2023.3287297.

This is the same I was looking for. Thanks.