Show HN: One-click citations for your essays

For interest, you can do something like this on the command line using curl. Try these:<p><pre><code> curl -LH &quot;Accept: text&#x2F;bibliography&quot; &quot;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dx.doi.org&#x2F;10.1017&#x2F;S0022112061000019&quot; curl -LH &quot;Accept: text&#x2F;bibliography; style=bibtex&quot; &quot;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dx.doi.org&#x2F;10.1017&#x2F;S0022112061000019&quot; curl -LH &quot;Accept: text&#x2F;bibliography; style=apa&quot; &quot;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dx.doi.org&#x2F;10.1017&#x2F;S0022112061000019&quot; </code></pre> My academic life became a lot simpler when I learnt this - now I only need to maintain a database of {cite key: DOI} pairs, rather than a bibtex monster. Yes, I have tried Mendeley et al. and yes, I do prefer scripts that do what I tell them to.

Very cool. This would have saved me tons of time in college.<p>One minor usability issue, clicking the different style after generating the citation doesn&#x27;t have any result until you generate a new citation. That is a little unintuitive. I would either switch to the different style immediately or put some separation in the UI between the returned citation and the components that are used to generate a new citation.

Going to the URL for this page (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7674449" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7674449</a>) and plugging that into speedcite, I get back truncated information on the subject line:<p>The MLA format cite comes out as:<p>&quot;Show HN: One.&quot; Ycombinator.com. N.p. Web. 30 Apr. 2014. &lt;<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/&gt;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;&gt;</a><p>The APA format cite comes out as:<p>Show HN: One. Ycombinator.com. Retrieved Apr 30, 2014, from <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com</a>.<p>The Chicago formate cite comes out as:<p>&quot;Show HN: One.&quot; Ycombinator.com. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;</a>.

I clicked a book on the Amazon Books homepage and couldn&#x27;t get it to work with the URL, ISBN, or ISBN-14.<p>The Fault in Our Stars Paperback by John Green: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Fault-Stars-John-Green/dp/014242417X/ref=acs_ux_rw_ts_b_books_2_i/181-1226938-4232212?_encoding=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-5&amp;pf_rd_r=1KBZV025GCFHMJHM3TAC&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=1615333102&amp;pf_rd_i=283155" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;The-Fault-Stars-John-Green&#x2F;dp&#x2F;01424241...</a>

Can you add Wikipedia citation formats?<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_templates" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wikipedia:Citation_templates</a>

Looks nice, but it doesn&#x27;t retrieve results for many of the DOIs I tried, e.g. 10.1155&#x2F;2014&#x2F;863625 and 10.4103&#x2F;0970-2113.129901, and gave an incorrect result for this one: 10.1073&#x2F;pnas.1324197111<p>Feature suggestions: would be nice if it accepted PubMed ids, and supported other popular citation styles like Hardvard and Vancouver (or alternatively, permitted some customisation of the citation format).

It didn&#x27;t work with the ISBN I tried: 978-0-06-121495-0. For the paperback of this book: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_Your_Dangerous_Idea%3F" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;What_Is_Your_Dangerous_Idea%3F</a>. A google search on the ISBN finds it.<p>EDIT: aha, you have to remove dashes for it to work. It should probably do this automatically.

Doesn&#x27;t work on the web page at <a href="http://gigaom.com/2014/04/29/supreme-court-reverses-patent-judges-again-in-9-0-decision-on-lawyer-fees/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gigaom.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;29&#x2F;supreme-court-reverses-patent-j...</a><p>The subject line gets cut much too short, and the URL gets trimmed to the root level of the domain.

Is there a reason it doesn&#x27;t show author names when I submit a URL like <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/210/4472/903.short" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencemag.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;210&#x2F;4472&#x2F;903.short</a> ?

IEEE references would be fantastic!<p>I don&#x27;t think the ISBN lookup works correctly. Typing in 9781405347587 or 978-1405347587 returns a book with ISBN 0-9690745-2-2<p>I&#x27;d be looking forward to upgraded version with IEEE but I just graduated, ha!

I think it&#x27;s interesting the URL citation does not actually include the URL. It seems like the title of the article and the domain. Why is the exact URL of the resource is not important?

An ISBN for a book shows up as a web resource in Google Books. Is there a way to get it to just be the book?

Damn, this is awesome. I would&#x27;ve loved something like this back in school. I did them manually.

Awesome job. Would be really cool to see something like this for legal citations as well.

You should introduce a Bibtex format too if you have to rope in the academia crowd.

This is really neat. Wish I had this during my high school&#x2F;college years.

Cool, can I see an example ?

What does this offer over using Google Scholar&#x27;s citations?

I used KnightCite in college, this would have been great.

Very cool. Would have saved me a ton of time.

Super fast! Thanks for this great tool!

I used easybib.com for my school work.

very cool, just forwarded this to some of my editor&#x2F;writer friends

This is great. Nice work.