CrossRef Guidelines: Standard Citations in Author Postings
The CrossRef Institutional Repositories Committee , chaired by Bernie Rous at ACM, has addressed the document versioning and citation problem by recommending that standard language be used when authors post versions of authoritative content to their personal home pages, to employer websites, or to Institutional Repositories. By being consistent in their instructions to authors CrossRef member publishers can help ensure that users can get to the authoritative version of the content and that a DOI is available to persistently cite the authoritative version.
The CrossRef Guidelines for Standard Citations in Author Postings (http://www.crossref.org/08downloads/author_guidelines.pdf) are available on the CrossRef website. General guidelines are available on the "Guidelines" page (http://www.crossref.org/02publishers/guidelines.html)
In repository and self-archiving, the author version of a document should contain a full citation to the formally published work and a persistent DOI link to enable users to locate the definitive version of the work. CrossRef is also working to have repositories retrieve DOIs automatically in cases where the DOI isn’t provided by the author.
Publishers can help their authors follow these Guidelines by emailing each author the final citation and DOI to insert in their posted copies.
Publishers may also find it appropriate to reference these Guidelines in their copyright transfer forms, or include them in self-archiving/posting policies to help familiarize authors with them.