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DOI

Meaning in academic english & research, with examples

/ˌdiː əʊ ˈaɪ/abbreviationCommon term

In academic english & research, DOI means: Digital Object Identifier: a permanent code given to an article, book chapter or dataset so that it can always be found online, even if its web address changes.

In Turkish: DOI numarası, sayısal nesne tanımlayıcısı

How it is used

A DOI starts with 10. followed by a prefix, a slash and a suffix. APA 7 asks writers to give DOIs as links beginning https://doi.org/. Many reference managers fill in the details of a source automatically from its DOI.

Example sentences

  1. Please add the DOI for each journal article in your reference list.

  2. I pasted the DOI into Zotero and it created the full reference.

Common collocations

  • add the DOI
  • DOI link
  • assign a DOI
  • DOI number
  • reference listThe list at the end of a paper or thesis giving full details of every source cited in the text, arranged in the order a citation style requires.
  • APA styleThe writing and citation rules of the American Psychological Association, based on author-date citations and widely used in the social sciences, education and psychology.
  • citationA reference to a source in a piece of writing; also each time another publication refers to a work, counted as a measure of its influence.
  • open accessA way of publishing in which research articles are free online for anyone to read, download and often reuse, without a subscription.

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