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https://github.com/hubgit/cite-urls

Generate citations for a list of URLs
https://github.com/hubgit/cite-urls

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Generate citations for a list of URLs

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[@bengoldacre](https://twitter.com/bengoldacre/status/366657597190832129): Is there a website where you can paste 20 academic journal URLs in one go and get a list of nice APA/Harvard/whatevs citations back?

## Instructions (for Chrome)

* [Download this project as a zip file](https://github.com/hubgit/cite-urls/archive/master.zip) and extract it.

* Chrome > Tools > Extensions, check "Developer mode", click "Load unpacked extension...", choose the "extension" directory in the extracted project.

* Click the new button in Chrome's toolbar, enter some URLs, and press "Cite".

## Screenshot

![Screenshot](screenshot.png)

## Notes

* Currently only works if a DOI can be detected.
* May sometimes detect an incorrect DOI.
* May sometimes receive incorrect metadata.

## TODO

* allow output format to be selected.
* scrape metadata from the page.
* generate citation locally using citeproc-js.