DOI to APSA Citation Converter

What is a DOI?

A DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is a permanent identifier assigned to a journal article, book chapter, dataset, or other scholarly work. It starts with 10. followed by a publisher prefix and a document suffix – for example, 10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2. Unlike a regular URL, a DOI never changes: the registration agency keeps it pointing at the work even when the publisher moves its website. That permanence is what makes a DOI the best possible input for a citation generator. When you paste a DOI into CiteTools, we query CrossRef – the largest DOI registration agency – for the article’s authoritative metadata: authors, title, journal, volume, issue, pages, and publication date. The citation is built from the publisher’s own record, not from text scraped off a web page, so author order, page ranges, and dates come out right.

How the DOI to APSA conversion works

1. Paste a DOI such as 10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2 into the input field – the bare identifier and the full https://doi.org URL both work.
2. CiteTools fetches the article’s metadata from CrossRef and validates the record.
3. Copy the formatted citation, or switch styles and export formats without re-entering the DOI.

Example input:

10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2

About APSA Style

American Political Science Association - used in political science and international relations.

APSA style, from the APSA Style Manual for Political Science, 2018 edition, is the author-date system of political science. The first author is inverted and the others keep normal order, all with full first names. The year follows the authors, article titles sit in quotation marks, and a DOI follows the pages. The in-text citation is the surname and the year, with a comma before a page.

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