Command line tool to turn DOIs into citations
Project description
cite
Installation
pip install cite
Usage
Prints citation from DOIs or URLs of journal articles which provide DOIs in their metadata.
$ cite https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.48.73
Einstein, A., & Rosen, N. (1935). The Particle Problem in the General Theory of Relativity. Physical Review, 48(1), 73–77. doi:10.1103/physrev.48.73
Other output styles formats are supported, see the list of CSL styles ar https://citation.crosscite.org/
$ cite --style iso690-author-date-en https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.48.73
EINSTEIN, A. and ROSEN, N., 1935, The Particle Problem in the General Theory of Relativity. Physical Review [online]. 1 July 1935. Vol. 48, no. 1, p. 73–77. DOI 10.1103/physrev.48.73. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.48.73
To generate a BibTeX entry with a shortdoi-based unique key use --bibtex
or -b
$ cite --bibtex https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.48.73
The entry's key is made of name, year and short DOI of the item.
To get Citeproc-JSON use --json
or -j
.
Where the journals provide the DOI in their website's metadata it is also possible to use the article website URL:
$ cite https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.48.73
Einstein, A., & Rosen, N. (1935). The Particle Problem in the General Theory of Relativity. Physical Review, 48(1), 73–77. doi:10.1103/physrev.48.73
To add to an entry to an existing BibTex file:
cite --bibtex https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.48.73 >> bibliography.bib
For the full list of options, see
$ cite --help
Uses Crosscite DOI Content Negotiation.
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