Help:Citation tools
The following tools can help you assemble a citation from limited information, with limited effort. These are tools with a variety of interfaces that provide a complete formatted reference based on a few initial details.
| Template | Notes |
|---|---|
| {{Cite doi}}, {{Cite pmid}}, {{Cite jstor}} | Provide these templates with the relevant identifier and they will automatically link to the relevant article if it is already on Wikipedia; if not, a bot will automatically complete the reference. |
| Tool | Requirements | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Universal Reference Formatter | Requires at least part of the citation text, or a URL link, or any one of several article ID numbers: ISBN, DOI, PMID, PMC, SICI | |
* Google Scholar search add-on
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Search Google Scholar via this webpage and if you find a source you can click to autofill its details back into the Universal Reference Formatter | |
| Scopus search add-on | Find a reference on Scopus, then with one click it's formatted ready for use in an article. | |
| Reference Generator | Depending on type of source, requires at least some part of citation, or a URL link, or some form of reference ID number | |
| Diberri Template builder | Requires a URL link or any one of several article ID numbers: DrugBank ID, HGNC ID, ISBN, PubMed ID, PubMed Central ID, PubChem ID | |
| {{Cite book}} generator | requires ISBN | For books only |
| Tool | Requirements | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Cite for Wiki aka Cite4Wiki |
Mozilla Firefox 3.5+ | Allows you to create a partial {{cite news}} template. See the developer's page for details. |
| refToolbar | Javascript | Allows you to format a reference during editing when you already have all the data. |
| SnipManager | Javascript | Adds a customizable drop-down menu above the edit form with templates (including citations). |
| Zotero | Mozilla Firefox | Zotero allows you to find articles and easily paste their citations into Wikipedia as citation templates, using (on Windows) Ctrl-Alt-C or right-clicking the article and selecting "Export Selected Item..." then "Wikipedia Citation Templates.") |
| Tool | Requirements | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Citation Bot (more info) | Partial citations must either contain a DOI, PMID, PMC, ISBN, or enough fields to be uniquely found. | The bot will also fix formatting errors. |
| tools:~dispenser/view/Reflinks | Checks an article for working (non-404) references, corrects titles, adds citation templates, and, preforms other misc. fixes. Can be added to the toolbox with this javascript: User:SQL/refcheck.js |
| Tool | Requirements | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| WebCite | WebCite archives a copy of an online source, so a citation can link to the archived copy as well as to the original URL (in case the latter changes in future) | |
| OttoBib | OttoBib generates an alphabetized bibliography of books from a list of International Standard Book Number (ISBN) numbers, with output in MLA, APA, Chicago/Turabian, BibTeX, or Wikipedia format (also generates a permalink). |