Laura Wilkinson talks about the importance of linking your references and getting involved in the Cited-by service at Crossref. Presented at Crossref LIVE local Hannover, June 27th 2018.

1. Reference
linking and
Cited-by

2. Crossref DOIs appear in references on the web page

3. Reference linking
• Members must add outbound
Crossref DOI links to their
references
• Publishers used to make these
agreements individually
• Membership of Crossref
provides social and technical
infrastructure to make sure
research is linked persistently
• Required only for current journal
content but encouraged for all

4. How to add Crossref DOI links to references
• Ask the authors in author guidelines
• Add at copyediting stage
• Use a search engine for individual articles (slow)
• Query Crossref with XML (efficient, requires skill)
• Use Crossref lookup tools (simple)
• Use third-party tools
• Inera xStyles
• Aries Editorial Manager
• Hire a Crossref Service Provider

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6. Getting back your matched references
https://doi.crossref.org/getResolvedRefs?doi=10.1103/PhysRevE.91.062714&usr=…

7. Crossref Simple Text Query
https://apps.crossref.org/simpleTextQuery
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Cited-by provides a clear overview of
the publications that have cited a piece
of content - and allows the publisher to
display this information on their
website.

11. Participation
1. Email member@crossref.org to sign up
2. Deposit to Crossref reference lists within each article’s metadata
3. Query Crossref for a list of all DOIs citing a document
4. Display Cited-by results on your website
No fee - Cited-by is an optional service

12. Getting started
• Deposit your references

13. Simple text query tool
http://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery

15. Benefits
• Let others see who you are citing
• Find out who is citing your papers
• Display that information however you like
• Help your readers find other related research

16. Crossref can see over
754,940,975 Cited-by
links
Figuring out who has cited
your content can be difficult;
Cited-by provides a way to
find these citations and
display the results.

17. Questions
https://www.crossref.org/services/reference-linking/
https://www.crossref.org/services/cited-by/