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A Digital Object Identifier, or DOI, is a persistent means for identifying content online. They are commonly used with academic articles and allow the document to be found, even if its URL is changed. The DOI of a document does not change, and online databases store metadata, including location, of the document. Use this tag if your query is specific to DOIs.

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How to get DOI links in bibliography

I would like to add to all my bibliography items a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) link or a link to a download location. How can I do this with the natbib / BibTeX / hyperref combination? Currently ...
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Biblatex: Get rid of ISSN, URLs and DOIs in references

My .bib files are generated by Mendley desktop and usually contain URLs, ISSN and DOIs, but I don't want those to be displayed in my list of references. How can I get rid of them (short of deleting ...
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Missing $ inserted issue

Trying to get my dissertation sorted (due in a few hours) and I keep getting this error: ! Missing $ inserted. <inserted text> $ l.190 ... pp. 225--236, 10.1007/978-0-387-68772-...
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How to remove conference information from the ACM 2017 SIGCONF template?

I have downloaded the new ACM template for conference proceedings (sigconf format). Even when I comment out the lines that are related to conference information, price, DOI, etc. I get the following ...
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biblatex: make title hyperlink to DOIs, URL or ISBN

This is a follow up question to biblatex: Make title hyperlink to doi url (if available). My reference database contains some DOI codes, but mainly normal URLs and some ISBN/ISSN codes. What I would ...
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biblatex: Make title hyperlink to doi url (if available)

I'm using biblatex with the standard bibliography style. How or what should I modify so that the title is turned into a link pointing to a suitable doi url? (of course only if the doi is available)
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Automatically dereference DOI to .bib?

Is there an established way to, given a list of DOI identifiers, produce a .bib file containing the citation information?
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Redundancy in bib file: conditionally suppress url if same as doi?

Mathscinet gives bibtex entries with both a doi and a url field included. Typically they look something like @article {some-article, […] DOI = {10.1016/j.apal.2008.12.003}, URL = {http://dx....
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Automatically adding DOI fields to a hand-made bibliography

Is there a tool that will read a .bib file and add the correct DOI fields for all the entries that don't have them? My current workflow is to just add citations as and when I need them with auctex in ...
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Multiple doi, url, and eprint entries in biblatex

I'm in the process of writing a biblatex style file to support the on-line journal Theory of Computing. The journal has been using BibTeX for years, and I am looking forward to the flexibility ...
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Biblatex: use doi only if there is no URL

Is there a way to insert a doi of an entry only in case it is missing a URL field? It happens a lot that the doi and URL are essentially the same, and inserting them both yields a redundancy. I am ...
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Omitting fields in Bibliography

When building my bibliography using the \bibliographystyle{plainnat} The output looks like [88] G. R. Ruetsch and M. R. Maxey. Small-scale features of vorticity and pas- sive scalar fields ...
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Citation with DOI that has underscore breaks functionality in BibDesk

One functionality of BibDesk that is nice is the ability to click on a link at the end of the Doi entry field, which will open up the link http://dx.doi.org/DOI-HERE in a browser. One problem I've ...
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Get rid of ISSN, URLs and DOIs in references

I am having the same problem as described here (i.e., I get unwanted URLs, DOIs, etc showing up in my reference section): Biblatex: Get rid of ISSN, URLs and DOIs in references Two caveats: I am ...
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Biblatex: Print ISBN only if DOI is not defined

I have a large set of references and I in most cases do have either ISBN DOI DOI and ISBN I'd like to setup a filter that prints the ISBN only when the DOI does not exist. How can I set up a ...
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Print url only if doi not present

this question inspired me to make the printing of the Url and the Eprint field conditional, so that it only prints if there's no Doi field. Any pointers would be appreciated, If I use the code posted ...
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DOI in IEEEtran bibliography

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 ...
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Produce a hyperlinked DOI?

Friends, I'm trying to write a command that prints appropriately hyperlinked DOIs for a bibliography system. Here was my first attempt \newcommand{\formatdoi}[1]{\href{http://dx.doi.org/#1}{#1}} ...
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Is it possible to make a reference clickable without showing its DOI or URL field?

I'm using biblatex with the following options \usepackage[backend=biber,style=numeric-comp,sorting=none,% isbn=false,url=false,doi=false,firstinits=true]{biblatex} Thus, my bibliography contains ...
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Handling overflows in biblatex bibliographies

I'm finally making the transition to biblatex. This is a remarkable package, and has allowed me to cut out quite a bit of old code I used to use to handle eprints, DOIs, crossref mapping problems, etc....
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Biblatex: Convert doi-url into doi field

I use biblatex and would like my bibliography to only include a DOI field, whenever there is DOI information available. This involves two things: Biblatex has to suppress the URL field whenever a DOI ...
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Bibliography entry containing <>

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 ...
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Underscore in Doi in bibtex file

In my bibtex, there are url links for DOIs with underscores which are causing compilation errors. Here is the bibtex: @inproceedings{LVR19, author = {Author}, title = {Title}, doi = {https:...
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How to get bibliography with DOI instead of URL in elsarticle?

I'm using \documentclass[final,3p,twocolumn,number, sort&compress]{elsarticle} \bibliographystyle{elsarticle-harv} \begin{document} Text citing an article \cite{Andersen20132}. \bibliography{...
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Using the doi package with hyperref pagebacklinks=true

As best I understand it, if I want to use both the doi package and the pagebackref=true setting for hyperref, I need to load hyperref first (since otherwise doi will load it, and pagebackref=true ...
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bibtex: URL and DOI line breaks on different characters

In my references, I want to allow DOI's to break on a slash '/' character (or as a last resort on any character) to avoid underfull lines like the third reference below. Note that URL's are already ...
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Biblatex: redefine doi to display the full URL

I use the authoryear style for Biblatex. For articles that have a DOI, biblatex+biber automatically produce the following in the bibliography: DOI : 10.1162/qjec.2008.123.1.49 which contains a ...
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How to elegantly break long doi field

This is a code snippet from my paper. \RequirePackage{filecontents} \begin{filecontents}{bib.bib} @article{baumert62, author = {Baumert, Leonard and Golomb, Solomon W. and Hall, Jr, Marshall}, ...
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OAI field in biblatex/biber

Similarly to DOI, will an OAI (Open Archives Initiative) field be soon added to bibtex/biblatex styles?
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biblatex: DOI for just one citation

I want to have the DOI field explicitly printed for just one (or two) citations (\fullfootcite in my case). For the rest of the document, I use the doi=false option of biblatex combined with a DOI ...
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Bibliography style elsarticle-num-names with DOI and hyperlinks but no explicit url

I prepared my article with elsarticle, using \citep & \citet throughout. I originally used apalike bibliographystyle but now need to change it to elsarticle-num-names for citation formatting ...
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natbib + BibTeX: suppress url if doi is available

I am using natbib (+ BibTeX). Some entries in my bibliography file (.bib) have the field doi, some have url and some have both. I would like to edit the bibliography style file (.bst) so that, if doi ...
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References: Remove white space in front of doi

In my references, there is a problem with the doi. When using \usepackage{doi} I get hyperlinks, which is what I want. In combination with \usepackage{apacite} however, I then have to suppress the doi ...
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Achieve Linebreak in DOI in biblatex

In my references (using XeLaTeX, biblatex and Biber) I have one specific DOI that is hanging over more than a centimeter after line-break. All other DOI are correctly wrapped. Even inserting a (wrong ...
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tikzposter and doi package conflict?

When using the doi package with tikzposter, I get the following error when compiling with pdflatex: ! LaTeX Error: Can be used only in preamble. See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for ...
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adding doi-hyperlinks to journal, volume, issue, year, pages in the bibliography

I am trying to make a hyperlink in my bibliography referring the doi-url. The url begins with journal name and ends with the pages. Do to this I am using the code provided by Mateus Araújo in ...
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Suppress URL if DOI is present in biblatex-chicago

This question is probably a home-run for people that are more into the workings of biblatex than me... Anyway, I want to achieve what has been solved here and here, but with using biblatex-chicago ...
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Why is the doi in biblatex a different font?

I am using biblatex-chicago (with \autocite) and a standard BibTeX file. For some reason, the DOI in my references is in a different font from the rest of the entry. Is this normal?
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When using splncs.bst style from Springer lncs template, Bibtex does not compile well doi fields that contains "_"

I am using BibTeX. When my bib file contains a reference with a doi field like this one: Doi = {10.1007/978-94-007-2421_10} it does not compile. I think BibTeX thinks that _ is a math symbol. But ...
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DOI in reference

I am writing a letter to IEEE EDL. They asked me to add DOI in the references. I am using IEEEtran style. The .bib file contains the DOI for each reference. But it is not displayed in the output. How ...
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How to include the doi in only one single bibtex reference and exclude it from all others?

There are many questions on here about the doi field in bibtex, however they are all (at least the ones I have found) about adding a doi for all references. What should you do if you only want it in a ...
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Formatting only the DOI using biblatex

I'm using biblatex and would like my DOIs to be printed (achieved thanks to doi=true) in a different color and font in the bibliography section. Basically, they are formatted the same way as URL, ...
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DOI's hyperlink: include "doi:"?

The package doi renders \doi{10.1000/182} as doi:10.1000/182, where 10.1000/182 is a boxed or colored hyperlink. Can the hyperlink also include the doi: part? Omitting that is as peculiar as omitting ...
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Including DOI field in bibliography while using multibib package

I am new to Latex and I used multibib package and .bib file. Every thing works great except there is no DOI at the end of entities. All my entities in the bib file have DOI filed and url and I use ...
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what are pitfalls when using doi as bibtexkey?

A very common scheme for bibtexkeys is FirstauthornameYYYY like Bohr1922. This scheme is not well suited for collaborating in teams because of collisions (Bohr1922a vs. Bohr1922b if there were many ...
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Macro for writing DOI with optional link text

The doi package has a neat \doi command, that transforms a doi string into \href{http://dx.doi.org/<the doi>}{doi:<the doi>}. The uri package has something similar with the help of the url ...
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Getting rid of DOI, ISSN links from bibliography

In light of this and this AND if I'd want to use pdflatex instead of biblatex, how do I get rid of doi, ISSN links from my bibliography? I can write a script such as here but that leaves a , hanging ...
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pstricks-doi package conflict?

The following does not work: \documentclass{minimal} \usepackage{doi} \usepackage[pdf]{pstricks} \begin{document} hello world \begin{pspicture}(1,1) \psline(0,0)(1,1) \end{pspicture} \end{...
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Use character substitution in BibTeX .bst file

I use BibTeX not only to create bbl files for my LaTeX documents, but also to produce HTML of my whole collection of articles. It works pretty well for the last 12 years but since I decided to add a ...
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BreakURL package using DVIPS only works on URL and not DOI

I've prepared my bibliography using biblatex, and my DOI addresses are not breaking their lines properly. I know that using pdflatex will solve this issue, I have to compile my document using latex -> ...
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