cite 0.5.1

Command line tool to turn DOIs into citations

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

To generate a BibTeX entry with a shortdoi-based unique key use

$ cite --bibtex https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.48.73

The entry key is made of name, year and short DOI of the item.

Other output formats are supported, e.g. citeproc-json

$ cite --format citeproc-json https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.48.73 doi:10.1002/andp.19053221004

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 habanero and the Crossref API (https://www.crossref.org/) as well as Pybtex.