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

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Post by denzil_correa » Wed, Apr 30, 2014, 6:52 PM UTC

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

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

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Post by RankingMember » Wed, Apr 30, 2014, 7:02 PM UTC

Damn, this is awesome. I would've loved something like this back in school. I did them manually.

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

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Post by jwcrux » Wed, Apr 30, 2014, 7:04 PM UTC

cabbeer wrote: post #26

I used easybib.com for my school work.

Same here- I wonder what functionality this has over easybib.

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

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Post by tommorris » Wed, Apr 30, 2014, 7:24 PM UTC

Can you add Wikipedia citation formats?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_templates

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

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Post by rkuykendall-com » Wed, Apr 30, 2014, 7:28 PM UTC

I clicked a book on the Amazon Books homepage and couldn't get it to work with the URL, ISBN, or ISBN-14.

The Fault in Our Stars Paperback by John Green: http://www.amazon.com/The-Fault-Stars-John-Green/dp/01424241...

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

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Post by grundprinzip » Wed, Apr 30, 2014, 7:31 PM UTC

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 -…

For CS I did it almost like that: Typically you write papers in LaTeX which means you need a correct Bibtex entry, and correct means its better be curated by someone else. Since most of the relevant CS publications are in DBLP [1] I wrote a small script that scans missing citation keys in your LaTeX file for actual DBLP keys and automatically builds this into a bibtex file that you can use [2]. If you integrate this command in your regular build cycle for LaTeX using for example latexmk manually maintaining bibtex files is a thing from the past.

[1] http://www.dblp.org/search/

[2] https://github.com/grundprinzip/dblp

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

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Post by bradknowles » Wed, Apr 30, 2014, 7:32 PM UTC

Doesn't work on the web page at http://gigaom.com/2014/04/29/supreme-court-reverses-patent-j...

The subject line gets cut much too short, and the URL gets trimmed to the root level of the domain.

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

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Post by michaelq » Wed, Apr 30, 2014, 7:35 PM UTC

bradknowles wrote: post #37

Doesn't work on the web page at http://gigaom.com/2014/04/29/supreme-court-reverses-patent-j... The subject line gets cut much too short, and the URL gets trimmed to the root level of the domain.

MLA, APA and Chicago style guides don't recommend including the full domain unless it would be too difficult to otherwise find. Hence the truncation.

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

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Post by zmguy » Wed, Apr 30, 2014, 7:35 PM UTC

I think it'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?

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

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Post by bradknowles » Wed, Apr 30, 2014, 7:37 PM UTC

michaelq wrote: post #38

bradknowles wrote: post #37

Doesn't work on the web page at http://gigaom.com/2014/04/29/supreme-court-reverses-patent-j... The subject line gets cut much too short, and the URL gets trimmed to the root level of the domain.

MLA, APA and Chicago style guides don't recommend including the full domain unless it would be too difficult to otherwise find. Hence the truncation.

Okay, fair enough. But what about the full subject?