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Automated Web Resource Citing With Bibtex

I find myself constantly citing web resources that I need to cite, and I think it’s a huge hassle. They’ve all got the same format, and though Bibtex does a lot of the formatting heavy lifting for you, it’s still a pain.

Enter laziness.

From Safari, I drag a web location onto my desktop, or keep them in a references folder: [caption id=”attachment_514” align=”aligncenter” width=”300” caption=”Drag a link onto the desktop from Safari.”]Drag a link onto the desktop from Safari.[/caption]

And then drag the web location onto the droplet to get results. You can drag several files or folders on at once: [caption id=”attachment_515” align=”aligncenter” width=”300” caption=”Rejoice in the output.”]Rejoice in the output.[/caption]

[caption id=”attachment_516” align=”aligncenter” width=”300” caption=”Running on a directory.”]Running on a directory.[/caption]

Or from the command line tool (see the install tool): [caption id=”attachment_518” align=”aligncenter” width=”300” caption=”Using it from the command line.”]Using it from the command line.[/caption]

Installation: [caption id=”attachment_519” align=”aligncenter” width=”300” caption=”Disk image contents”]Disk image contents[/caption]

Files: webdoc-0.1