DOI to BibTeX Converter
Paste a DOI and get a BibTeX entry built from the publisher’s record. Free DOI to BibTeX converter for LaTeX, Overleaf, Zotero, and JabRef. No sign-up.
Paste a DOI to get a BibTeX entry
Why convert a DOI to BibTeX
A DOI is the fastest route to a BibTeX entry. CiteTools reads the registry record for the DOI, from CrossRef for most journals, and writes the fields a .bib file needs: authors, title, journal, volume, issue, pages, year, and the DOI itself. Nothing is retyped, so author order and page ranges match the publisher’s record. The entry type follows the work: a journal article becomes @article, a book becomes @book, and a conference paper becomes @inproceedings.
How the DOI to BibTeX conversion works
- Paste a DOI such as 10.1038/nature14539, with or without the https://doi.org prefix.
- CiteTools fetches the registry record and builds an entry of the matching type, such as @article or @book.
- Copy the entry into your .bib file, or paste up to 100 DOIs separated by blank lines to build a whole bibliography.
Sample BibTeX entry
Every entry starts with its type and a citation key, followed by one field per line. Authors are joined with the word and, page ranges use a double hyphen, and capital letters that must survive a bibliography style are wrapped in braces. In LaTeX, cite the entry with \cite and its key.
@article{LeCun2015Deep,
author = {LeCun, Yann and Bengio, Yoshua and Hinton, Geoffrey},
journal = {Nature},
doi = {10.1038/nature14539},
number = {7553},
year = {2015},
month = {may 27},
pages = {436--444},
title = {Deep learning},
volume = {521},
}Frequently asked questions
What citation key does the entry get?
The key joins the first author’s surname, the year, and the first main word of the title, as in LeCun2015Deep. A leading The, A, or An is skipped. Rename it to match the keys you already use. LaTeX only needs it to be unique in the file.
Does it work with biblatex and Overleaf?
Yes. Paste the entry into your .bib file and cite it with \cite and the key. One field to check: when the publisher gives a full date, the month field also carries the day, as in may 27. Trim it to the month if your bibliography style prints months.
Why are some capital letters wrapped in braces?
Many BibTeX styles lowercase titles unless a letter is protected. Braces around a word such as {NumPy} keep its capitals in every bibliography style. Leave them in place.