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**Short answer.** Every arXiv paper has a DOI of the form `10.48550/arXiv.ID`. Cite the arXiv version with the identifier and year, and if a journal version exists, cite that instead and mention the preprint.

## Formats

- **BibTeX**
```bibtex
@misc{mialon2023gaia,
  title={GAIA: a benchmark for General AI Assistants},
  author={Mialon, Grégoire and others},
  year={2023},
  eprint={2311.12983},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  primaryClass={cs.CL},
  doi={10.48550/arXiv.2311.12983}
}
```
- **APA:** Mialon, G., et al. (2023). *GAIA: a benchmark for General AI Assistants*. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2311.12983

## Details

- The abs page has an "Export BibTeX Citation" link with the canonical entry.
- Versions: cite `2311.12983v2` when the version matters; DOIs resolve to the latest.
- Journal references appear in the abs page's "Journal-ref" field when authors add them.

## Sources

- arXiv, [DOI announcement](https://info.arxiv.org/help/doi.html) (checked 2026-09-10).