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-==== Formatting of DOIs in APA style ====
+==== DOI format in APA style ====
-The 6th edition of the //Publication manual of the American Psychological Association// calls for journal articles with DOIs to be formatted with the DOI preceded by doi:, for example
+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:
-> Herbst, D. M., Griffith, N. R.,  & Slama, K. M. (2014). Rodeo cowboys: Conforming to masculine norms and help-seeking behaviors for depression. //Journal of Rural Mental Health//, //38//, 20–35. doi:10.1037/rmh0000008
-In 2012, the APA updated these recommendations in the //[[http://www.apastyle.org/products/4210512.aspx|APA Style Guide to Electronic References]]// and now prefers linking dois through a resolver, for example
+''https://doi.org/10.1037/rmh0000008''
->Herbst, D. M., Griffith, N. R.,  & Slama, K. M. (2014). Rodeo cowboys: Conforming to masculine norms and help-seeking behaviors for depression. //Journal of Rural Mental Health//, //38//, 20–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rmh0000008
+Note the use of "https" instead of "http", and "doi.org" instead of "dx.doi.org".
-The [[http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2014/07/how-to-use-the-new-doi-format-in-apa-style.html|APAStyle blog post]] (where these examples are drawn from)  explains these changes in more detail. Instead of the ''dx.doi.org'' resolver, the APA style provided by the [[http://www.citationstyles.org|Citation Style Language (CSL)]] and used in Zotero uses ''doi.org'', so that the above citation would be:
+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.
->Herbst, D. M., Griffith, N. R.,  & Slama, K. M. (2014). Rodeo cowboys: Conforming to masculine norms and help-seeking behaviors for depression. //Journal of Rural Mental Health//, //38//, 20–35. http://doi.org/10.1037/rmh0000008
+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.
-This resolver is [[http://www.doi.org/doi_handbook/3_Resolution.html#3.7.3|prefered by doi.org]], will be recommended by CrossRef [[https://twitter.com/epentz/status/660066468445442048|in the future]], and is functionally equivalent to the longer (and older) version. In [[https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/47374/doi-in-apa-6edition/#Item_5|direct correspondence with the CSL team]], APA experts agreed with this modification and provided the following response:
+=== A brief history of DOI formats ===
-> 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.
+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.
->
-> Best regards,
+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]].
->
-> The APA Style Expert Team
+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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