Doi (identifier)
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The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a persistent identifier for online academic objects, most commonly journal articles, book chapters and data sets. The wiki uses DOIs in citations so that readers can resolve the source via the DOI system, which redirects to the publisher's canonical landing page regardless of URL changes.
This page exists as the link target for the "doi" label that CS1 citation templates emit when a reference includes a doi= parameter.
Format
A DOI consists of a prefix (assigned to the publisher, always beginning with 10.) and a suffix (assigned by the publisher to the specific item), separated by a slash. For example: 10.2307/2943448.
DOIs are case-insensitive, but the convention is to preserve the case as the publisher registered it.
Use on the wiki
DOIs are passed to {{Cite journal}}, {{Cite book}} or {{Cite news}} via the doi= parameter:
{{cite journal |last=Dimock |first=Edward C. |year=1959
|title=Rabindranath Tagore - "The Greatest of the Bāuls of Bengal"
|journal=The Journal of Asian Studies |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=33-51
|doi=10.2307/2943448}}
For standalone DOI references outside a CS1 template, use {{Doi}}:
{{doi|10.2307/2943448}}
The citation template renders the DOI as a clickable link to https://doi.org/, which resolves to the article's canonical landing page.
Verification
Confirm a DOI resolves cleanly before citing. Canonical resolvers are PubMed for biomedical articles and the publisher's landing page for non-medical ones. Avoid copying DOIs from secondary sources or publisher-redirect URLs, which may carry stale or wrong identifiers and will quietly ship the reader to the wrong paper.