Possible to modify render of linked DOIs to show DOI number?

[matthewfeickert]

In https://mystmd.org/guide/external-references#linking-dois, the MyST docs explain that linking a DOI anywhere in the document will create a citation and render the citation in place of the DOI. Is it possible to still link the DOI, but not replace the formatting?

For example, if one is creating a manual list of research products that have been created, the Markdown might look like

### Research Products and Publications

...

* Matthew Feickert, Ruben Arts, John Kirkham, _[Reproducible Machine Learning Workflows for Scientists with Pixi](https://inspirehep.net/literature/3071594)_, Proceedings of 24th International SciPy Conference — SciPy 2025, July, 2025. DOI: [10.25080/nwuf8465](https://doi.org/10.25080/nwuf8465)

but MyST renders this as

Research Products and Publications

...

• Matthew Feickert, Ruben Arts, John Kirkham, Reproducible Machine Learning Workflows for Scientists with Pixi, Proceedings of 24th International SciPy Conference — SciPy 2025, July, 2025. DOI: Feickert et al. (2025)

when showing the 10.25080/nwuf8465 would actually be preferable. Is there a way to force different behaviour?

This may be related to GitHub Discussion https://github.com/orgs/jupyter-book/discussions/2398.

[rowanc1]

We currently replace the text if the link has the DOI as the content, probably something that would be better as an option, but that is not configurable at the moment.

A work around is to make it not "DOI like". That I think is best done by putting a zero-width space after the / in the DOI:

Matthew Feickert, Ruben Arts, John Kirkham, _[Reproducible Machine Learning Workflows for Scientists with Pixi](https://inspirehep.net/literature/3071594)_, Proceedings of 24th International SciPy Conference — SciPy 2025, July, 2025. DOI: [10.25080/​nwuf8465](https://doi.org/10.25080/nwuf8465)

This will be interpreted as a <wbr/> in the web/static exports, and not effect copying text, so only be in your source (and only seen in your text editor if you highlight those characters...).

A bit of a hack, but hope it helps.

[matthewfeickert]

Thanks @rowanc1. That works well. 👍