doi links in the bibliography

JuliaDausK

Hi,
I use the Zotero Add-In for Word to link in-text-citations with Zotero and to create the bibliography at the end of the text. Unfortunately, if an article has a doi-link, it is always listed as well in the bibliography. Does anyone know how I can avoid this?
Thanks a lot,
Julia

adamsmith

that depends on the citation style - many citation styles, including APA and Chicago Manual, require (APA) or strongly recommend (Chicago) that DOIs be included. Other styles won't print DOIs.

JuliaDausK

Thank you, adamsmith!
My problem is that I use a certain style depending on the guidelines of a certain journal. I found that it is possible to edit citation styles (http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step), but I couldn't figure out how to remove the doi link. Does anyone know about this?
Thanks a lot!

adamsmith

if the style is wrong on the repository we're happy to fix it, but you'd need to tell us which style and point to documentation or recently published articles that show the style on the repository is wrong.

JuliaDausK

As I understood you, some styles just are the way that they add the doi link. I want to change this, but didn't figure out how to do so...
For example, I used the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, because a journal required it, but then had to remove the doi links in the bibliography manually, because they were net usual in the bibliographies of the articles in this journal...

adamsmith

you typically just have to delete the line that starts with
<text variable="DOI"
and then follow the instructions in the link above to get the style back into Zotero.
That said, a journal that doesn't want DOIs included isn't following APA style (regardless of what they say), as APA requires DOIs since the 6th edition of the manual. If you have specific journals in mind you can request specific styles for them. You can also look at the APA 5th edition style on the repository.