Help:Citation tools

"Wikipedia:Ref tools" redirects here. For referencing toolbar that is part of the default Wikipedia editor, see Wikipedia:RefToolbar.

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.

Tools

• Citoid, a tool built into Visual Editor that attempts to build a full citation based on a URL. See user guide.
• DOI Wikipedia reference generator: Converts a digital object identifier (DOI) into {{cite journal}}.
• Wikipedia citation tool for Google Books: Converts a Google Books URL into {{cite book}}.
• 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: Converts URL, DrugBank ID, HGNC ID, PubMed ID, PubMed Central ID or PubChem ID to full citation.
• APA and MLA Format - A free tool that generates citations in MLA or APA format.
• DTU Informatics PMID to Cite journal: Requires a PubMed ID (PMID).
• Biomedical citation maker: For journals indexed by PubMed. Accepts PMID, DOI, PMCID as inputs. Bookmarklet is available.
• Wikipedia-References-Creator: A Firefox addon for creation of references (output changeable).
• RefScript - a bookmarklet that generates references with a single click. Works with a few news websites (BBC, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Daily Telegraph, Huffington Post, Huffington Post Canada, New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Times of India, Financial Times, The Economist, Business Week, Ars Technica, TG Daily) and it can learn any other newspaper or website.
• WebRef‎‎ - a bookmarklet automating the filling of the

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template.

• Yadkard: Generates shortened footnote and citation using Google Books URLs, DOI, ISBN, and a few news websites including New York Times, BBC, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, The Daily Telegraph and The Huffington Post.

Not working

• New York Times Wikipedia reference generator: Converts a NYT URL into a {{cite news}}. --not working as of March 28, 2015. --Siddhant (talk) 02:32, 28 March 2015 (UTC) Still not working November 2015. Pol098 (talk) 18:58, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Templates

• BibDesk Export Template – An export template for formatting Wikipedia citation templates in BibDesk, which is a free open-source BibTeX-based reference management software application for OS X
• Chrome citation extension for Google Chrome – Creates a citation that screen-scrapes the most commonly referenced websites
• 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
• CiteCompletion for AutoWikiBrowser – A custom module for AWB to complete citations of common English-language news sites
• Cite4Wiki for Mozilla Firefox 3.5+ – Allows you to create various templates including {{cite web}} and {{cite news}}; get the current version or an old version
• citemark (JavaScript) – A bookmarklet to help create {{cite web}} templates; see the developer's page for details
• Find sources – provides links to customized searches for reliable sources in news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR · free images and the like. Points to a variety of templates for use in talk pages, on the AfD page etc, and for a variety of types of articles and situations.
• {{Google scholar cite}} – A template front-end for the Universal reference formatter; 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
• 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)
• References segregator (JavaScript) – Shows references in a separate edit window for easy editing; can also convert references to list-defined references format
• toollabs:refill – Checks an article for working (non-404) references, corrects titles, adds citation templates, and performs other miscellaneous fixes; can be added to the toolbox with this JavaScript: User:SQL/refcheck.js
• refToolbar (JavaScript) – Allows you to format a reference during editing when you already have all the data
• Scopus search add-on – Find a reference on Scopus, then with one click it's formatted ready for use in an article
• SnipManager (JavaScript) – Adds a Ribbon menu above the edit form with templates (including citations) and the ability to preview citations
• 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)
• User:CitationTool – Semi-bot for finding citation errors and fixing them
• Zotero for Mozilla Firefox – 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"; see Wikipedia:Citing sources with Zotero

Citation tools

Reference markup and citation templates may be inserted manually or by use of tools:

• RefToolbar is part of the editing tool bar
• ProveIt provides a graphical interface for editing, adding, and citing references. It may be enabled per the documentation
• Citation expander automatically adds missing data to citations using citation templates, and makes corrections to their formatting
• SnipManager adds a ribbon interface to add citations
• wikEd

User scripts

• PleaseStand/References segregator places references into a separate edit box
• Folded references collapses the references of a page
• User:Anomie/ajaxpreview.js adds a preview button that will show references when editing a section
• user:js/ajaxPreview adds a preview button that will show references when editing a section
• RefTooltip sets the tooltip for references to the text of the reference.
• Footnote popups Displays a small popup box of a footnote when you hover the cursor above a footnote link
• ListrefErrors shows errors when using {{listref}}
• HarvErrors shows errors when using Harvard templates
• Sources Formats names of newspapers within citation templates
• Reference exporter
• User:Salix alba/Citoid Generates citation templates using the Citoid server. Standalone javascript which can be used outside of Visual Editor.

Beta and obsolete

Beta

• Ref++ PubMed search (Beta, November 2009)
• Cite4Wiki Phoenix

Obsolete:

• User:Smith609/Cite
• {{Cite isbn}}

Deprecated

The following bot-filled templates are deprecated.

• {{Cite doi}}
• {{Cite pmid}}
• {{Cite jstor}}
• {{Cite arXiv}}

Documentation

These templates can be used in documentation:

Typing aids

• {{cite.php}}: shortcut for mw:Extension:Cite/Cite.php
• {{cite xxx}}: shortcut for Wikipedia:Citation templates
• {{cite *}}: shortcut for {{Citation/core}}
• {{cs1}}: shortcut for Help: Citation Style 1
• {{cs2}}: shortcut for Help: Citation Style 2
• {{fnote}}: shortcut for Help:Footnotes
• {{fnote1}}: shortcut for Wikipedia:Footnote1
• {{fnote2}}: shortcut for Wikipedia:Footnote2
• {{fnote3}}: shortcut for Wikipedia:Footnote3
• {{fnote4}}: shortcut for Wikipedia:Footnote4
• {{ldr}}: shortcut for List-defined references
• {{paren}}: shortcut for Wikipedia:Parenthetical referencing
• {{sfnote}}: shortcut for Help:Shortened footnotes
• {{vcite}}: shortcut for Help:Citation Style Vancouver

Navboxes

• {{Citation Style 1}}: navbox for Citation Style 1 templates
• {{Wikipedia referencing}}: navbox for referencing help pages

Documentation

• {{Citation Style documentation}}: modular documentation for Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2
• {{Harvard citation documentation}}: documentation for Harvard citations
• {{Markup}}: show markup and rendered output side by side
• {{Refname rules}}: rules for names for footnotes and groups

Replication

• {{Dummy backlink}}: replicate footnote backlinks
• {{Dummy ref}}: replicate footnote in-text cite
• {{Fake heading}}: replicate headings
• {{Fake notes and references}}: replicate Notes and References headings