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<h1>Creating a Digital Object Identifier Link</h1>
<p>The digital object identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents. The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication. The DOI will never change. Therefore, it is an ideal medium for citing a document, particularly Articles in Press because they have not yet received their full bibliographic information.</p>
<p>The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows:</p>
<p><span class="code">doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2003.10.071</span></p>
<p>When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web, they are guaranteed never to change.</p>
<p><span class="bold">Complete the following steps to resolve a DOI:</span></p>
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<li>Open the following DOI site with your browser:
<p>http://dx.doi.org</p></li>
<li>Enter the entire DOI citation in the text box provided, and then click Go.
<p>The article that matches the DOI citation appears in your browser window.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>The DOI scheme is administered by the <a href="http://www.doi.org" target="_blank" title="International DOI Foundation (opens new window)">International DOI Foundation</a>. Many of the world's leading learned publishers have come together to build a DOI-based article linking scheme known as <a href="http://www.crossref.org" target="_blank" title="CrossRef (opens new window)">CrossRef</a>.</p>
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<h2>Related Topics</h2>
<p><a href="browse_open_doc.htm">Browsing Open Documents</a></p>
<p><a href="art_export.htm">Exporting Article Citations</a></p>
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