The plugin add a shortcode in order to link a paper using its doi code. You can also use an other shortcode to resolve doi code and publish a full citation apa formatted. It is also a shortcode for manual citations.
Link doi
Using the standard for doi link, the plugin introduce a shortcode in order to create a link to a paper provided by doi.
How to use the shortcode:
[ctdoi code="..."]Title of the paper[/doi]
Doi resolver
The plugin send the doi code to
Crossref Metadata Search, get the information and publish a full citation in apa standard with the shortcode [ctdoiresolve ...].
How to use the shortcode:
[ctdoiresolve code="..."]
There are also three optional parameters:
[ctdoiresolve code="..." arxiv="..."]
if the paper has an arXiv version
[ctdoiresolve code="..." pdfurl="..."]
if the paper has a free pdf version
[ctdoiresolve code="..." archiveurl="..."]
if the paper has a free version on
archive.org
Manual citations
There's also a shortcode for manual citations, [paperdata ...]. You can use it with the following syntax:
[paperdata auth="author/s name/s" year="..." title="..." journal="..." vol="..." issue="..." pages="..." code="..."]
You can also use the arxiv, pdfurl, archiveurl parameters.
Styling
You can style citations adding in your css theme the class "paperdata".
External service
Digital Object Identifier, or
DOI, is a persistent identifier used to uniquely identify objects, standardized by the
International Organization for Standardization (
ISO). DOIs are mainly used to identify academic, professional, and government information, such as journal articles, research reports and data sets, official publications.
Citations tools uses the
CrossRef Metadata API to retrieve complete publication information using the doi code as a search query. CrossRef is a part of the
doi system.