Template:Cite doi

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Overview

{{Cite doi}} was a template that was used for citing a journal article using its DOI number. When this was functioning, an editor could use the template with the DOI number, and a bot would then fill out the full reference. However, the bot created a separate template page for each individual citation which were simply calls to {{cite journal}}. An RFC at this template's talk page concluded with the consensus that this template should no longer be used because of various problems caused by this system.

Instead use {{cite journal|doi=...}} (or {{cite report|doi=...}} if it wasn't published in a bona fide academic journal), which allows you to specify the DOI, then run the citation bot on the page. The Citoid feature, which is part of Visual Editor, does this too, and as well as other third-party tools.

Third-party tools

When using third-party tools, you are still responsible for your edits. Proofread the content generated by any of these tools.

• DOI Wikipedia reference generator
• Wikipedia DOI and Google Books Citation Maker
• User:Citation bot

See also

• {{Cite Q}}, a similar method based on Wikidata items instead of DOI-based sub-templates
• Template:Ref doi, a historically deprecated method to create references based upon citations created by this template
• Template:Cite jstor, another historically deprecated method based on JSTOR IDs that used this template
• Template:Cite pmid, another historically deprecated method based on PMID-based sub-templates
• Wikipedia:Digital Object Identifier and Handle System

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