DOI Citation Generator
Paste a DOI — like 10.1152/physrev.00032.2012 — and get a complete citation in all five major styles. The citation is built from the CrossRef registry record the publisher itself filed: exact author list, journal, volume, issue, and pages.
This is the most reliable citation you can make. No metadata scraping, no guessing — the same authoritative record libraries use.
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One DOI, five perfect citations
Rasch, B., & Born, J. (2013). About sleep's role in memory. Physiological Reviews, 93(2), 681-766. https://doi.org/10.1152/physrev.00032.2012
Rasch, Björn, and Jan Born. "About sleep's role in memory." Physiological Reviews, vol. 93, no. 2, 2013, pp. 681-766, https://doi.org/10.1152/physrev.00032.2012.
Rasch, Björn, and Jan Born. "About sleep's role in memory." Physiological Reviews 93, no. 2 (2013): 681-766. https://doi.org/10.1152/physrev.00032.2012.
Rasch, B. and Born, J. (2013) 'About sleep's role in memory', Physiological Reviews, 93(2), pp. 681-766.
B. Rasch and J. Born, "About sleep's role in memory," Physiological Reviews, vol. 93, no. 2, pp. 681-766, 2013. doi: 10.1152/physrev.00032.2012.
Where to find the DOI
Any format works here: the bare DOI (10.1038/...), the URL form (https://doi.org/10.1038/...), or the old dx.doi.org links. We normalize them all.
- Article landing page — near the title or in the "Cite" panel.
- The PDF — first page header or footer, usually as https://doi.org/10.xxxx.
- Database records — PubMed, JSTOR, Scopus, and Google Scholar all display it.
- Reference lists — papers citing your source often include its DOI.
How each style formats the DOI
APA 7 ends the reference with the DOI as a full link: https://doi.org/10.xxxx. MLA 9 prefers the DOI over a URL, in the same link form. Chicago appends it after the page range. Harvard typically uses it where a URL would go. IEEE writes it as doi: 10.xxxx — no link. One paste here gets each style's exact convention.
DOI vs. URL: why it matters
Journal URLs rot — publishers redesign sites, platforms migrate, links die. A DOI is a permanent identifier maintained by the publisher through the DOI system, so https://doi.org/10.xxxx will resolve to the article forever. When a source has a DOI, every major style now wants the DOI instead of the URL. If your source has no DOI (most pre-2000 articles, many magazine pieces), fall back to the database or journal URL.
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Go Premium — $5/monthFrequently asked questions
- What is a DOI exactly?
- A Digital Object Identifier — a permanent ID (10.prefix/suffix) assigned to a scholarly work and registered with its metadata. See our full guide: What Is a DOI?
- The DOI lookup says not found — why?
- Either a typo (DOIs are long — copy-paste rather than retype) or the work is registered with an agency other than CrossRef (some datasets use DataCite). For the latter, cite via Manual Entry.
- Do books have DOIs?
- Increasingly yes, especially academic books and chapters. If your book has one, paste it here; otherwise use the ISBN tab, which pulls from book databases instead.
- Preprints (arXiv, bioRxiv) — can I cite their DOIs?
- Yes — preprint servers assign DOIs and register metadata. The citation will correctly show the repository as the source. If the paper was later published in a journal, prefer citing the journal version.