Journal Français d'Ophtalmologie (JFO) - style without doi....

Honey_Bee_FR
Sorry but this journal doesn't accept bibliography references with the field DOI taken from PubMed (given at the end of the references in the bibliography)
(in a collateral way and from my point of view, I don't understand the meaning of this field)
Thanks!
  • LiborA
    In this article from this journal is DOI used very frequently.
    Do you have any response from the editorial of the journal?
  • damnation
    Hi,
    JFO is an Elsevier journal and hence the style for it is just a dependent style of elsevier-vancouver.csl
    DOI, Digital Object Identifier, is like a fingerprint for a digital article. it's unique and hence a great and simple way to find it. You can just enter it here: https://www.doi.org/ in the search bar or even make a URL out of it https://www.doi.org/10.1177/0010414006286542

    Elsevier actually demands them to be included, although they are then removed in their final publications. It's easier for them to link to the references like that for their website.
    Have a look here at the bottom. You see the DOIs are there: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0181551217301365
  • adamsmith
    But if the editors tell you explicitly not to use DOIs, we can add a separate style for the journal.
  • Honey_Bee_FR
    The editors didn't tell me explicitly not to use DOI as I asked them in a resquest.... but after having suppressed the DOI at the end of some of the references... my article had been accepted for reviewers.
    Among JFO's guidelines for authors, there are examples of references:

    [1] Freeman WR, Lerner CW, Mines JA, Lash RS, Nadel AJ, Starr MB et al. A prospective study of the ophthalmologic findings in the acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Am J Ophthalmol 1984;97:133-42.
    [2] Frumin AM, Nussbaum J, Esposito M. Functional asplenia: demonstration of splenic activity by bone marrow scan. Blood 1979;54(Suppl 1):26-32.
    [3] Eisen HN. Immunology: an introduction to molecular and cellular principles of the immune response. 5th ed. New York: Harper and Row; 1974.
    [4] Weinstein L, Swartz MN. Pathogenic properties of invading microorganisms. In: Sodeman WA Jr, Sodeman WA, editors. Pathologic physiology: mechanisms of disease. Philadelphia: WB Saunders; 1974. p. 457-72.

    None of these given examples have DOI (especially 1 and 2)
    May be, as I suspect, these items are a little bit old to have a DOI, if DOI is a recent
    bibliography artefact (?) or in the medical domain, PubMed is a so efficient research engine (that is true) that DOI is not very useful (?)


  • bwiernik
    edited June 24, 2017
    A DOI is extremely useful, as you can be taken directly to the article by typing it like this: https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414006286542

    That link will always work, even if the journal is sold to another publisher, etc. DOIs serve some similar purposes as PubMed IDs in that they are a persistent identifier, but are consistently used across academic fields and in my experience are easier to use, as I can just click on a DOI link rather than having to search for a PubMed ID in PubMed.

    Even many older articles from major publishers/journal have DOIs assigned at this point. The first article you listed has this DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0002-9394(14)76082-9. I would guess that this was just a sloppy typesetter.

    Some types of items (e.g., abstracts in supplements [your second item] or books [your third and fourth items]) might not have DOIs from some publishers, but that is becoming increasingly rare.

    In any event, Elsevier also uses DOIs as part of its publishing process to link articles together, etc., so unless you were explicitly told not to include them, it's best to leave them in.
  • Honey_Bee_FR
    Curious. I asked Pubmed with ZOTERO (and Chrome) for the [1] and [2] references, given as examples by the JFO, and no doi field in ZOTERO has been completed. May be to have a doi, an other database (in conjonction with Pubmed) must be asked ?

    Whatever, clear the DOI field (in ZOTERO) is not very difficult.... as clear the "[" and "]" in the title of an article given by Pubmed if this article is not in english. So the JFO Zotero style can be left unchanged.

    Except if I am among the only happy few concerned with JFO, for the others authors submitting articles in this revue, it may be useful to know that they can encountered difficulties with doi....
    As we say in french "un homme averti en vaut deux"....
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