Look up the article's DOI in a metadata registry to read the deposited volume and issue, then cross-check those values against the publisher's landing page before you edit the record. The DOI gives you a stable identifier to start from, and the registry returns the metadata deposited for that DOI.
- Find the DOI in the imported record. Check the DOI field or the imported URL. If the record has no DOI, resolve that gap first, because the registry lookup depends on it.
- Query the DOI in a metadata registry. The Crossref REST API exposes deposited scholarly metadata, and a DOI lookup returns the metadata deposited for that DOI. Read the volume and issue values returned for the work.
- Resolve the DOI to the publisher landing page. A DOI name resolves through the Handle System to current information supplied for the identified object, commonly a landing page maintained by the registrant. Open that page and compare its volume and issue with the registry values.
- Edit the record only when the two sources agree. Enter the matching volume and issue, then save. If the registry and the landing page disagree, or one leaves a field blank, treat the field as unresolved and check the article's own citation details before entering anything.
- Format the completed fields to your citation style. Citing Medicine provides structured rules and examples for citing journal articles, so use its journal-article pattern to confirm how volume and issue should appear in the finished reference.
A plausible-looking number that no source confirms creates a citation error that is harder to catch later than a blank field. Verified fields are the stopping point: the record is correct when the volume and issue match both the deposited metadata and the publisher's page.