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BibTeX citation generator
Paste any identifier and get a BibTeX entry you can drop into your .bib file: a DOI, an arXiv id or link, an ISBN, a PubMed id, an OpenReview link, or a web page.
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How to use it
- Paste a DOI, arXiv id or link, ISBN, PubMed id, OpenReview link or any URL.
- Press Generate. The entry appears with a key built from the first author, year and first title word.
- Copy it into your .bib file, or switch to APA, MLA, IEEE or ACM below the entry.
Why you'd use it
Publisher BibTeX exports are inconsistent: keys like Smith_2020, titles with braces around every word, months as numbers, journal names in capitals. This generator writes one consistent shape from the registry metadata, so a bibliography built from many sources looks like one bibliography.
For arXiv papers it fills eprint, archivePrefix and primaryClass, the fields the arXiv style guides ask for. For workshop papers hosted on OpenReview it adds the workshop's full name with its conference and year, which no registry provides.
FAQ
What can I paste?
A DOI in any form (bare, doi:, or a doi.org link), an arXiv id or abs/pdf link, an ISBN-10 or ISBN-13, a PubMed id or link, an OpenReview forum link, or any URL that contains a DOI. A plain web page becomes an @misc entry with the URL and access date.
How is the citation key chosen?
First author's family name, year, and the first word of the title that is not a stopword, all lowercase: vaswani2017attention. Edit it in the box before copying if your .bib file uses another convention.
Why are some words in the title wrapped in braces?
BibTeX styles may lowercase titles. Words with a capital letter inside them, such as BERT, LoRA or GPUs, are wrapped in braces so they keep their case. Other words are left alone.
Does it handle accents and Unicode?
Yes. Names and titles are written as Unicode, which biber and inputenc both read. If you use classic bibtex without inputenc, replace the accented characters with their LaTeX form.
Is anything uploaded or stored?
No. Your browser talks directly to Crossref, DataCite, Open Library and PubMed; this site sees nothing and stores nothing.