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:

Drag a link onto the desktop from Safari.

Drag a link onto the desktop from Safari.

And then drag the web location onto the droplet to get results. You can drag several files or folders on at once:

Rejoice in the output.

Rejoice in the output.

Running on a directory.

Running on a directory.

Or from the command line tool (see the install tool):

Using it from the command line.

Using it from the command line.

Installation:

Disk image contents

Disk image contents

Files:
webdoc-0.1

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One Response to “Automated Web Resource Citing With Bibtex”

  1. Al Haraka says:

    Wow. This is most cool. I have recently come to accept my OS X reality for the time being, poking my own Linux-loving eye out. This is a fun little tool that makes LaTeX go a long way. Thanks for the tip.

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