Demo instance — all content is sample, fictional data.
TR
Help topics

How-to

Downloading Crossref XML

Downloading the Crossref XML file of a catalogue record or a journal issue for DOI registration, and the conditions the file needs.

Permission needed
See unpublished catalogue records, Edit the profiles and issues of the journals in scope
Changed in
1.9.7, 1.9.10

To upload to Crossref by hand, you download the Crossref XML file of a record or of a journal issue. The file is made only for public records that have a DOI. If your institution's automatic DOI registration is on, records go to Crossref by themselves and you do not need this file.

The file of a record

  1. On the record's page, find the Record information card on the right.
  2. Press Download Crossref XML.

The button appears on article, book, book chapter and proceedings paper records. An article's file also carries the details of its journal and its published issue. An article in early view has no issue yet, and its file is made with the details of its journal only. The file of an article whose issue went back to draft carries no issue details.

A book's file carries all the book's ISBNs. A number obtained through an ISBN request is written as print or electronic, depending on the form of the request. A number typed into the catalogue by hand counts as print.

The file of an issue

  1. Open the issue's page.
  2. Press the Crossref XML button at the top of the page.

The issue's file contains every public article of the issue that has a valid DOI. Articles without a DOI are left out of the file. The file needs a published journal record and a published issue.

Conditions for the file

  • The record must be published, archived or retracted.
  • The record must have a DOI.
  • If a DOI prefix is entered in the site settings, the DOI must start with that prefix.
  • A thesis must have an author and the institution where it was written.

If a thesis's institution is not typed in but only linked to an institution record, the institution's name and ROR ID come from that record. Imported theses may be like this. If the institution record was deleted, the thesis's file is not made.

Crossref accepts only two-letter ISO 639-1 codes as languages. Ottoman Turkish has no such code. The file does not state the language of a record or a title in that language.

An article's file also contains its reference list. References that mention a DOI in their text are written with their DOIs. If the system administrator switches off the Crossref XML export feature, the file cannot be downloaded.

Sending records to Crossref automatically is explained in Automatic DOI Registration.

Was this page helpful?