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-==== Formatting of DOIs in APA style ====
+==== DOI format in APA style ====
-The new APA format for DOIs is described in  http://www.vaniercollege.qc.ca/techsupport/guides/ACL/APAGuideToElectronicRefs.pdf (e.g. page 18 in the PDF)
+Since the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system was introduced in 2000, guidelines on how to best display DOIs have evolved. Effective March 2017, Crossref, an influential DOI registration agency, now [[https://www.crossref.org/display-guidelines/|recommends]] the following format:
-APAStyle blog post explaining the new format and why it changed:
+''https://doi.org/10.1037/rmh0000008''
-http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2014/07/how-to-use-the-new-doi-format-in-apa-style.html
-In addition, here is the response from the official APA style support line regarding using "http://dx.doi.org/" versus the shorter "http://doi.org/" in references:
+Note the use of "https" instead of "http", and "doi.org" instead of "dx.doi.org".
-''This DOI world is constantly changing, and APA formulated its guideline to use the http://dx.doi.org prefix based on the recommendation of CrossRef.org. CrossRef still specifies that this is the format to use; I am unaware as to whether they know that the doi.org site suggests a simpler format. Certainly as long as the DOI resolves you have satisfied the purpose of the reference, and in the future I wouldn’t be surprised if all publishers officially endorsed the shorter form. In the meantime, if you want to be a stickler for the rules, the dx.doi format is the one that’s officially endorsed.
+While the 6th edition of the [[http://www.apa.org/pubs/books/4200066.aspx|Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association]], published in 2010, recommended the original ''doi:10.1037/rmh0000008'' format, APA has [[http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2017/03/doi-display-guidelines-update-march-2017.html|updated their guidelines]] to follow the Crossref guidelines for displaying DOIs with this latest format.
-Best regards,
+The CSL styles for the 6th edition of APA has therefore been updated to use the ''https://doi.org/10.1037/rmh0000008'' format as well.
-The APA Style Expert Team''
+=== A brief history of DOI formats ===
+As Crossref [[https://www.crossref.org/display-guidelines/#why-not-use-doi-or-doi|explains]] in their guidelines, the original concise ''doi:10.1037/rmh0000008'' format was recommended with the hope that web browsers would one day automatically recognize and hyperlink these DOIs.
-Because APA has indicated that the shorter form is acceptable, and it is preferred by doi.org (http://www.doi.org/doi_handbook/3_Resolution.html#3.7.3), we chose to go with "http://doi.org/" for the Zotero style.
+Since this didn't happen, Crossref [[https://www.crossref.org/news/2011-08-02-crossref-revises-doi-display-guidelines/|changed its recommendation]] in 2011 to show DOIs as regular URLs instead, in the format ''http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rmh0000008''. APA started to recommend this newer (but nowadays also outdated) format in its 2012 companion guide, [[http://www.apastyle.org/products/4210512.aspx|APA Style Guide to Electronic References]], and discussed this change in a 2014 [[http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2014/07/how-to-use-the-new-doi-format-in-apa-style.html|blog post]].
-See https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/47374/doi-in-apa-6edition/#Item_5
+More recently, there has been a strong movement to move the web over from HTTP to the more secure HTTPS protocol. Technical changes also made it possible to link DOIs via the shorter ''doi.org'' instead of ''dx.doi.org''. Together, this let Crossref [[https://www.crossref.org/blog/new-crossref-doi-display-guidelines-are-on-the-way/|change]] its recommended format to ''https://doi.org/10.1037/rmh0000008''.
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