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-==== Formatting of DOIs in APA style ====
+==== DOI format in APA style ====
-The [[http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2014/07/how-to-use-the-new-doi-format-in-apa-style.html|APAStyle blog post]] explaining how to format that and give some background. Basically it describes two possibilities for formatting: Either use the doi with a prefix and colon, e.g. ''doi:10.1037/rmh0000008'', or use the doi in a form of a url, e.g. ''%%http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rmh0000008%%''. However, the [[http://www.doi.org/doi_handbook/3_Resolution.html#3.7.3|prefered form of such an url by doi.org]] is a shorter variant, namely ''%%http://doi.org/10.1037/rmh0000008%%''. This form is also accepted for APA as the following response from the official APA style support confirms:
+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:
-> 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.
+''https://doi.org/10.1037/rmh0000008''
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-> Best regards,
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-> The APA Style Expert Team
+Note the use of "https" instead of "http", and "doi.org" instead of "dx.doi.org".
-Because APA has indicated that the shorter form is acceptable, and it is preferred by doi.org, we chose to go with ''%%http://doi.org/%%'' for the Zotero style.
+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.
+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.
-See https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/47374/doi-in-apa-6edition/#Item_5
+=== 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.
+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]].
+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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