Python Citations Generator
Project description
pycite: Python Citations Generator
pycite is a simple to use python citations generator.
Supported Reference Styles
- Harvard
Supported Paper Sources
-
NCBI
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Pubmed
Supported file formats
pycite generates citations given a file of the following types:
- Text files (
.txt)
Installation
The simplest way to install the latest release is as follows:
pip install pycite
To install the development version:
Open the Terminal/CMD/Git bash/shell and enter
pip install git+https://github.com/Nelson-Gon/pycite.git
# or for the less stable dev version
pip install git+https://github.com/Nelson-Gon/pycite.git@dev
Otherwise:
# clone the repo
git clone git@github.com:Nelson-Gon/pycite.git
cd pycite
python3 setup.py install
Usage
First, one needs to create an object of class PyCite
from pycite.pycite import PyCite
# Need an input-output file pair
my_citations = PyCite(input_file="testfiles/testlinks.txt", output_file="testfiles/citations.txt")
To generate citations, one simply calls the cite method.
# This will write citations in the provided output file
my_citations.cite()
The above gives us (only the first line is shown here). See citations.txt for the full file.
Pohorille A, Wilson MA, & Shannon G Flexible Proteins at the Origin of Life (2017) Life (Basel), 7(2)
Notes
This software is provided freely. If you have any concerns, please contact the author. Specifically, the papers used to test that the software works have been randomly chosen. In the event that you notice that any of those papers has been retracted, please immediately inform the author to remove that paper from the tests.
For Science!
To report any issues, suggestions or improvement, please do so at issues.
“Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.” – Ralph Johnson
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