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Show HN: One-click citations for your essays

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

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Post by michaelq »

sperling75 wrote: post #3

Cool, can I see an example ?

Sure. Any DOI you pull off of Google scholar should work. Same with ISBNs off the back of any book you have lying around. And it works with most news sites. http://www.speedcite.com/?q=http://www.usatoday.com/story/ne...

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

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Post by slg »

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.

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

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Post by michaelq »

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.
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