DOI to BibTeX Generator

Paste DOIs and copy references in BibTeX.

Paste one or more DOIs and the tool formats them in BibTeX using the official Citation Style Language style, with metadata from Crossref, PubMed and OpenAlex. You can switch to any other journal style on the same page.

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Questions

What does a journal article look like in BibTeX style?

For the AlphaFold paper the generator gives: @article{Jumper2021, author = {Jumper, John and Evans, Richard and ...}, title = {Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold}, journal = {Nature}, year = {2021}, volume = {596}, number = {7873}, pages = {583--589}, doi = {10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2} }

How do in-text citations work in BibTeX?

In LaTeX, cite with \cite{Jumper2021}. The citation key is the first author's surname plus the year, so edit it if two entries clash.

How many authors do I list in BibTeX?

Authors are joined with and in Surname, First name order, which BibTeX and biblatex both read correctly.

How do I cite a DOI in BibTeX?

Paste the DOI, one per line, and press Continue. The generator reads the publisher's Crossref record and formats it in BibTeX. Paste up to 50 DOIs to build a whole reference list.

Can I format for a specific journal instead?

Yes. Press Change above the results and search by journal name or abbreviation. The list covers more than 10,800 journal styles from the Citation Style Language repository used by Zotero and Mendeley.

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