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Digital Object Identifiers
A DOI is a permanent address for an article, so it can always be found and cited.
What a DOI is
A Digital Object Identifier is a permanent, unique code assigned to a published article. Unlike a web address, it never changes — even if the article moves to a different site. Anyone with the DOI can find the article.
A DOI looks like this:
10.1234/jast.2021.16.1.001
and resolves through a link of the form:
https://doi.org/10.1234/jast.2021.16.1.001
Why it matters
- Permanence — the link keeps working years later.
- Citation tracking — indexing services use the DOI to link citations to your article.
- Credibility — funders and institutions often expect published work to carry a DOI.
- Accuracy — it removes ambiguity between similarly titled papers.
Our DOI policy
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Citing with a DOI
Include the DOI at the end of the reference as a full link. Each article page on this site shows a ready-made citation in APA and BibTeX that you can copy.
If a DOI does not resolve
Newly registered DOIs can take a short time to become active. If a DOI for one of our articles still does not work after a few days, please tell us and we will correct the registration.