DOI to ASA 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 ASA 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 ASA Style

American Sociological Association - used in sociology and related social sciences.

ASA style, from the ASA Style Guide, 7th edition, is the author-date system of sociology and many other social sciences. The first author is inverted and the others keep normal order, all with full first names. Article titles sit in quotation marks, the journal name is italic, and the year follows the authors. A DOI closes the reference as doi: and the number. The list runs in alphabetical order, and the in-text citation is the surname and the year, with a colon before a page.

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