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Re: Show HN: One-click citations for your essays

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Post by michaelq »

jonlucc wrote: post #13

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?

From the ISBN alone, it's difficult to differentiate between an electronic book (such as one retrieved by Google Books) and a physical one. Would it be helpful to add a switch allowing you to specify whether you want electronic book citations or print book citations?

Re: Show HN: One-click citations for your essays

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Post by michaelq »

ofirnachum wrote: post #10

Is there a reason it doesn't show author names when I submit a URL like http://www.sciencemag.org/content/210/4472/903.short ?

Sciencemag.org uses a special metatag for authors (citation_author). I'm not sure how common this is, but I will add logic to check these. Then SpeedCite would properly cite the author.

Re: Show HN: One-click citations for your essays

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Post by agildehaus »

michaelq wrote: post #7
slg wrote: post #6

Very cool. This would have saved me tons of time in college. One minor usability issue, clicking the different style after generating the citation doesn'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.

Thanks for the feedback. Originally, clicking the style pill button refreshed the citation (in the selected style), which I think is the behavior you're describing. It sounds like I should go back to that behavior.

Have the server respond with the necessary info but generate the style client side instead of server side. There doesn't appear to be any need to make trips back to the server to change styles.

Also, "http://google.com" complains about robots.txt, but "http://google.com/" (trailing slash) does not.

Re: Show HN: One-click citations for your essays

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Post by aaren »

For interest, you can do something like this on the command line using curl. Try these:

    curl -LH "Accept: text/bibliography" "http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022112061000019"

    curl -LH "Accept: text/bibliography; style=bibtex" "http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022112061000019"

    curl -LH "Accept: text/bibliography; style=apa" "http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022112061000019"
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.

Re: Show HN: One-click citations for your essays

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Post by aroch »

aaren wrote: post #19

For interest, you can do something like this on the command line using curl. Try these: curl -LH "Accept: text/bibliography" "http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022112061000019" curl -LH "Accept: text/bibliography; style=bibtex" "http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022112061000019" curl -LH "Accept: text/bibliography; style=apa" "http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022112061000019" My academic life became a lot simpler when I learnt this -…

Ok, that's pretty awesome. Time to shove this into a Word macro (because, I have to use word :( )
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