User:J. Johnson/Citation tools

This is my working area (in active ferment) for organizing information about tools that can be used to create filled in citation (or family) templates. My purpose is to determine what tools are useful, and to promote such tools as are useful.

List
Main references found on Wikipedia:
 * Citation tools -- redirects to WP:Citing sources (aka WP;CITE).
 * WP:Citation tools

WP:Citing sources mentions:
 * Wikicite (written in Visual Basic .NET) 👎 and
 * Wikicite+.
 * The or  templates from User:Richiez (requires working Ruby installation).  Not to be confused with pmid (aka Cite pmid) and isbn (for missing isbns). 👎
 * pubmed2wiki.xsl an XSL stylesheet transforming the XML output of PubMed to Wikipedia refs.
 * RefTag by Apoc2400 creates a prefilled cite book template with various options from a Google Books URL.
 * wikiciter web interface.

WP:Citation tools has various intriguing links, including:
 * Ref++,
 * Cite doi, Cite pmid, Cite jstor, and Cite arXiv,

and others. I haven't check these (yet), wouldn't mind some help here.

See also:
 * User:Teratornis/Notes

Cite doi
Inserting causes a proper citation to be displayed (along with the hyper-linked doi and pmid), but nothing is added to the text; it appears to be done on-the-fly. (Is that really a good thing?) Clicking on the edit link displays the filled in cite journal template (stored in WT namespace). Cite pmid seems to work the same way; likewise for the others?

Bibtex
In regards of journals, another possibility to consider is the use of one of the standard citation manager formats. E.g., Bibtex citaitons look like (in part): author = {Jacoby, Gordon C. and Williams, Patrick L. and Buckley, Brendan M.}, title = {Tree Ring Correlation Between Prehistoric Landslides ...}, volume = {258}, number = {5088}, pages = {1621-1623}, year = {1992}, doi = {10.1126/science.258.5088.1621}, URL = {http://www.sciencemag.org/content/258/5088/1621.abstract}, eprint = {http://www.sciencemag.org/content/258/5088/1621.full.pdf}, journal = {Science} In any competent editor (program) it is a simple matter to remove the curly braces and terminal commas, insert the vertical bars, and replace "URL" with "url", and you have most of a filled in template. The only "typing" is parsing the "author" line into individual "lastn, firstn" lines.

ISBN
Clicking on an ISBN (in Wikipedia) takes you to a customized "Book sources" page. Scroll down to the "Bibliographical information" section, and one of the links there will return a Wikipedia style cite book template, mostly filled out. Scroll back up to the "Online databases" section and click on the first "Find this book" link to get the rest of the information.

Sandbox (testing area)
Citation is displayed, but actual template stored in WT space.