DOI encoded, URL no longer resolving?

edited today at 6:33am
I entered the following into Zotero's DOI field:

10.1002/(SICI)1099-1379(200003)21:2<185::AID-JOB34>3.0.CO;2-M

The resulting URL https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1379(200003)21:2<185::AID-JOB34>3.0.CO;2-M resolves cleanly when used in my browsers.

I then created a bibliography of this entry from Zotero in APA 7th style. Zotero emits:

Fisher, C. D. (2000). Mood and emotions while working: Missing pieces of job satisfaction? Journal of Organizational Behavior, 21(2), 185–202. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1379(200003)21:2%253C185::AID-JOB34%253E3.0.CO;2-M

The resulting URL shows that Zotero encoded the angle brackets. The URL therefore no longer resolves ("DOI not found").

For me it looks as if the angle brackets were double-encoded as
%253C/%253E. Shouldn't it be just %3C/%3E?

I fail to understand what is happening here. Why is this? Is this a bug?
  • edited today at 6:33am
    Just tried in a new LO document and the hyperlink text is https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1379(200003)21:2%253C185::AID-JOB34%253E3.0.CO;2-M, and the link is https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1379(200003)21:2<185::AID-JOB34>3.0.CO;2-M. Clicking on the link in the bibliography opens the paper webpage.
  • edited today at 6:38am
    poettli wrote:

    "https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1379(200003)21:2%253C185::AID-JOB34%253E3.0.CO;2-M
    (...)
    Clicking on the link in the bibliography opens the paper webpage."


    Unfortunately, I do not know to which URL the link you clicked leads to.

    But I can say confidently that copy-and-pasting the URL that you mentioned into a web browser results in a "DOI Not Found".

    If I manually remove the two superfluous instances of "25" then it resolves cleanly (see my double encoding remark in orginal post).
  • edited today at 6:39am
    Yes, that's why I am explicitly talking about the generated bibliography with APA 7, which has an hyperlink that correctly resolve when you click on it. It lead to this paper.
  • Ok, thanks poettli!

    So it seems to me that the hyperlink text is wrong, while the generated actual link is correct.
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