DOI to IEEE Citation Converter
Paste a DOI and get an accurate IEEE style citation in seconds. Free DOI to IEEE converter backed by live CrossRef metadata. No sign-up, no ads.
Paste a DOI to get a IEEE citation
What is a DOI?
A DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is a permanent identifier assigned to a journal article, book chapter, dataset, or other scholarly work. It starts with 10. followed by a publisher prefix and a document suffix – for example, 10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2. Unlike a regular URL, a DOI never changes: the registration agency keeps it pointing at the work even when the publisher moves its website. That permanence is what makes a DOI the best possible input for a citation generator. When you paste a DOI into CiteTools, we query CrossRef – the largest DOI registration agency – for the article’s authoritative metadata: authors, title, journal, volume, issue, pages, and publication date. The citation is built from the publisher’s own record, not from text scraped off a web page, so author order, page ranges, and dates come out right.
How the DOI to IEEE conversion works
- Paste a DOI such as 10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2 into the input field – the bare identifier and the full https://doi.org URL both work.
- CiteTools fetches the article’s metadata from CrossRef and validates the record.
- Copy the formatted citation, or switch styles and export formats without re-entering the DOI.
Example input:
10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2
About IEEE Style
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - used in engineering and computer science.
IEEE style is the numbered system used across electrical engineering and computer science publications. Authors appear as initials before the surname, article titles sit in quotation marks, journal names are abbreviated and italicized, and each reference ends with volume, issue, page, month, and year fields in a fixed order. CiteTools produces the full reference entry ready for an IEEE-formatted paper.
Frequently asked questions
Where do I find a DOI?
Look near the title or abstract on the article page, in the database record, or on the first page of the PDF. It starts with 10. and is often shown as a https://doi.org link. If you cannot locate one, search the article title at search.crossref.org.
How accurate is the IEEE citation?
The citation is built from the publisher’s own CrossRef record, then rendered with the official Citation Style Language definition for IEEE. Metadata errors are rare because the data comes from the DOI registration itself rather than from a scraped web page.
Can I convert several DOIs at once?
Yes. Paste up to 100 DOIs separated by blank lines and CiteTools switches to batch mode, returning one formatted citation per DOI in the order you pasted them.