# Interfaces for People

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## [About the Interfaces for People category](https://community.crossref.org/t/about-the-interfaces-for-people-category/1298)

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**Author:** [@Vanessa](https://community.crossref.org/u/Vanessa)\
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To retrieve metadata from Crossref, you do not need to be a member. We have various options for retrieving metadata - some are more suitable for human use, and some for machine use. There are two interfaces for people (…

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## [DOI number not shown in google scholar, please guide](https://community.crossref.org/t/doi-number-not-shown-in-google-scholar-please-guide/13924)

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**Author:** [@gimrj12](https://community.crossref.org/u/gimrj12)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [8 June 2025 00:06 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/doi-number-not-shown-in-google-scholar-please-guide/13924 "2025-06-08T00:06:14Z")

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DOI number not shown in google scholar, please guide

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## [Ticket of the month - March 2025 - How do I get a list of DOIs registered for a journal, book, or conference?](https://community.crossref.org/t/ticket-of-the-month-march-2025-how-do-i-get-a-list-of-dois-registered-for-a-journal-book-or-conference/13582)

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**Author:** [@ifarley](https://community.crossref.org/u/ifarley)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [9 April 2025 16:26 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/ticket-of-the-month-march-2025-how-do-i-get-a-list-of-dois-registered-for-a-journal-book-or-conference/13582 "2025-04-09T16:26:21Z")

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Occasionally we get both members and metadata users asking us in tech support about how they can retrieve a list of DOIs that have been registered for a journal, book, conference, etc. There are a couple of ways to do th…

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## [Participation reports - now with affiliation coverage data!](https://community.crossref.org/t/participation-reports-now-with-affiliation-coverage-data/11770)

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**Author:** [@lstoll](https://community.crossref.org/u/lstoll)\
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**Last updated:** [23 July 2024 16:35 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/participation-reports-now-with-affiliation-coverage-data/11770 "2024-07-23T16:35:17Z")

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We’re happy to announce that our participation reports now include two new fields: Affiliations and ROR IDs. This means that you can see - for each and every Crossref member - what percentage of their registered records …

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## [Harvard citing style is down](https://community.crossref.org/t/harvard-citing-style-is-down/4170)

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**Author:** [@Stefan](https://community.crossref.org/u/Stefan)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [10 October 2023 14:21 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/harvard-citing-style-is-down/4170 "2023-10-10T14:21:29Z")

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Harvard style citing is unavailable, while the other options are functional. Can you assist me with this? Thanks for the help :)!

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## [Can i lookup DOI using just the title and year of a journal article](https://community.crossref.org/t/can-i-lookup-doi-using-just-the-title-and-year-of-a-journal-article/3237)

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**Author:** [@merrittr](https://community.crossref.org/u/merrittr)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [21 January 2023 06:34 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/can-i-lookup-doi-using-just-the-title-and-year-of-a-journal-article/3237 "2023-01-21T06:34:03Z")

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I have Title:Temporal variability in nutrient transport in a first-order agricultural basin in southern Ontario Year:2004 Author:Macrae, Merrin L. can I use the API to look this up

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## [How to find out which metadata was registered?](https://community.crossref.org/t/how-to-find-out-which-metadata-was-registered/2957)

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**Author:** [@BrunaErlandsson](https://community.crossref.org/u/BrunaErlandsson)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [21 September 2022 15:06 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/how-to-find-out-which-metadata-was-registered/2957 "2022-09-21T15:06:25Z")

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Hi! An author of an ebook couldn’t add his work on Lattes Platform because the metadata didn’t match. It usually happens when there is a typo on the the name of the author… I know that, if I own a prefix, I can just ch…

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## [Ticket of the month - June 2022 - Who uses your metadata?](https://community.crossref.org/t/ticket-of-the-month-june-2022-who-uses-your-metadata/2786)

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**Author:** [@ifarley](https://community.crossref.org/u/ifarley)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [1 July 2022 20:57 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/ticket-of-the-month-june-2022-who-uses-your-metadata/2786 "2022-07-01T20:57:12Z")

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We get frequent questions about who is using the metadata members register with us. Many of those are specific to another product, tool, or organization. For instance, a popular question is: when will my metadata avai…

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## [Citation style edition](https://community.crossref.org/t/citation-style-edition/2514)

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**Author:** [@shaharimaparvin](https://community.crossref.org/u/shaharimaparvin)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [2 March 2022 06:39 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/citation-style-edition/2514 "2022-03-02T06:39:36Z")

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Dear all, Greetings from Bangladesh! I have found that users can copy citations directly from Crossref. It’s a wonderful feature! But it would be perfect if Crossref would mention the edition of citation styles for ex…

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## [SyntaxError: JSON.parse in Crossref API](https://community.crossref.org/t/syntaxerror-json-parse-in-crossref-api/1914)

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**Author:** [@lbermudez](https://community.crossref.org/u/lbermudez)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [11 August 2021 06:57 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/syntaxerror-json-parse-in-crossref-api/1914 "2021-08-11T06:57:16Z")

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I’m trying to retrieval metadata from this item (Crossref Metadata Search) with the REST API and get the error: SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data (https://api.crossref.org/…

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## [How to download full text with Author written highlights](https://community.crossref.org/t/how-to-download-full-text-with-author-written-highlights/1838)

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**Author:** [@tohidarehman1988](https://community.crossref.org/u/tohidarehman1988)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [29 June 2021 20:08 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/how-to-download-full-text-with-author-written-highlights/1838 "2021-06-29T20:08:10Z")

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For my academic research purpose, I am trying to download the dataset from Elsevier, but getting stuck to download research highlights part. It is downloading the full paper with all tag sections only “author-highlights…
