User:Smith609/Cite
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[edit] Universal Reference Formatter
This tool has been developed to generate a Wikipedia-formatted reference for a citation, with the minimum of effort.
If you are researching a topic and haven't found all the references you need yet, you can use a Google Scholar interface to find an article. A link below each result creates code you can copy and paste directly into Wikipedia.
If you use Firefox, You can add it to your search bar.
Alternatively, if you already have some of the citation's details to hand, it might be quicker to use the form interface, which allows you to add as much or as little data as you like, then completes the rest of the citation for you.
[edit] Search shortcuts
If your search ends in a year, the engine will assume that preceding words are authors, and you are searching for papers from that year. For example, searching for "Nash 1950" produces this result.
If you enter a DOI or PMID/PMC id, that article will automatically be produced.
For rudimentary BibTeX conversion, click here.
Please feel free to add to the current issues and wishlist as opportunity arises, or to discuss the system on the talk page
[edit] See also
- You may also be interested in Zotero, a reference manager that allows you to paste directly into Wikipedia as citation templates with Ctrl-Alt-C. Mozilla Firefox 2.0+ only.
[edit] Current issues
- PDF redirects[1]
- DOIs found with a terminating .[2]
- Should omit full stop at end of titles
- Date support removed with DOI update
- doi not found properly at doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2003.12.005
- Capitalisaton of hyphenated names
[edit] Requests
- Automatic search of WP for journal links(?)
- Scour list of "other results" to find one with a DOI
- Automatically use Nature for nature articles
- PMID display
[edit] Change Log
[edit] 6th July 2008
- Complete overhaul using DOI bot technology.
[edit] 11th March 2008
- Support for DOIs including <>s
[edit] 25th August 2007
- Speed greatly improved
- DOI support enhanced
- Special character support improved
[edit] 22nd August 2007
- Author and Year search bugs squashed.
[edit] 27th June 2007
- Only output minimum number of fields
[edit] 26th June 2007
- Repair incompatibilities with new Google Scholar
[edit] 25th May 2007
- Author bug
[edit] 11th May 2007
- Upgraded to Google interface
- Fixed special character bug
- Improved doi handling
[edit] 6th May 2007
- Added compatibility with special characters
- DOI & ISSN grabbing
- Various minor tweaks
[edit] 28th April 2007
- Fixed 'Date = today' bug
- Improved formatting of author list
[edit] 26th April 2007
- Apostophes now compatible
- Increased harvesting powers:
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- now reaps details Google Scholar doesn't find.
- Can Citify items without related articles
[edit] 25th April 2007
- More compatibility with other formats (number of braces, capitalisation)
- Enhanced performance with {{cite book}}
[edit] 24th April 2007
- Implemented URL-grabber
- Implemented DOI-finder
- ALLCAPS sensibliser activated
- Improved conference capabilities
- Whitespace optimisation
[edit] 23rd April 2007
- Fully functional
- Compatibility issues fixed
- Conference support
