Article Identifiers

Every journal article is assigned an article ID (CATS Manuscript ID) and a DOI (CrossRef Digital Object Identifier).

The article ID should be tagged in an article-id element with type attribute "publisher-id". For example:

<article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">722797</article-id>

The DOI should be tagged in an article-id element with type attribute "doi". For example:

<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1080/10807039.2012.722797</article-id>

For current journals in production the article ID and DOI to use will be provided in cats.xml.

For retrodigitization projects, a range of article ID's is assigned to each project and this range should be used to assign a unique article ID to every article. If the article already has a DOI assigned (for example, printed on the article opening page) the existing DOI should be used. If the article does not have a DOI one should be created using this formula:

10.1080/{issn}.{year}.{articleid}

Where:

  • {issn} is the Complete print ISSN of the journal, without a dash. Online ISSN should be used only if the journal does not have a Print ISSN.
  • {year} is the year of publication. This should be the volume year of the issue in which the article was published. If a volume year is not known at the time the DOI is created this should be the current year.
  • {articleid) is the article ID assigned to the article.

Each element should be separated by a dot (.). For example: 10.1080/15555275.2009.414509 

Submission ID

When an article is submitted for publication a submission identifier will be assigned to the article if the journal uses a peer review system. The submission identifier will appear in CATS as the Secondary Manuscript ID. If an article has a submission identifier, the submission identifier should be included in the article XML using the article-id element with pub-id-type attribute value submission-id. The submission-id should be included in addition to the publisher-id and doi. For example:

<article-id pub-id-type="submission-id">ZMEO-2017-027</article-id>

Special Cases

Each article should have one DOI, however an article can have more than one DOI. In these situations the additional (non-primary) DOIs can be tagged using different type attributes:

"doi-alias" – Use when the additional DOI is registered with CrossRef as an alias to the primary DOI.

<article-id pub-id-type="doi-alias">10.1577/1548-8659(1979)41[96:DNAFUI]2.0.CO;2</article-id>

"doi-alternate" – Use when the additional DOI points to a version of the article hosted by a different organization.

<article-id pub-id-type="doi-alternate">10.3730/0968130202pr193oa</article-id>