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This is one of my personal favorites. It’s pretty self explanatory.
CitationMeCrazy
Instant Citations from Any Source
Drop a PDF, paste a URL, or enter a DOI and get perfectly formatted citations in APA, MLA, Chicago, IEEE, AMA, and Harvard instantly.
No more manual formatting.
Built for students, researchers, and academics who need accurate citations fast.
CitationMeCrazy automatically reads your documents, pulls metadata from scholarly databases like OpenAlex and Crossref, and generates properly formatted reference entries and in-text citations.
You can:
• Save citations to your personal library
• Organize them into folders
• Access your full citation history anytime
Current Status
It still needs A LOT of work.
This is one of the applications I worry about with API calls being abused potentially.
Let’s see if making it public hurts more than helps.
It was almost flawless.
Then I decided to try and make it so users did not have to sign in, while still gating the AI API calls as a fallback only if logged in.
It ruined it.
Now I’m Working On
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The DOI / URL generator
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Fixing how it does not print the full site name on (n.d) retrievals
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Reviewing the manual parsing through Python packages
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Allowing the author’s name to be changed and citations adjusted manually
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If a DOI exists in the document or metadata, it should pull directly from the DOI rather than using API calls
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Desktop UI adjustments
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First Post
This is one of my personal favorites. It’s pretty self explanatory.
CitationMeCrazy:
Instant Citations from Any Source
Drop a PDF, paste a URL, or enter a DOI and get perfectly formatted citations in APA, MLA, Chicago, IEEE, AMA, and Harvard instantly. No more manual formatting. Built for students, researchers, and academics who need accurate citations fast.
CitationMeCrazy automatically reads your documents, pulls metadata from scholarly databases like OpenAlex and Crossref, and generates properly formatted reference entries and in-text citations. Save citations to your personal library, organize them into folders, and access your full citation history anytime.
It still needs A LOT of work.
This is one of the applications I worry about with API calls being abused (potentially).
Let’s see if making it public hurts more than helps…
It was almost flawless, and then I went and decided to try and make it so users did not have to sign in, yet gate the AI API calls as fallback only if logged in.
… It ruined it.
Now, I’m working on:
1.) The DOI / URL generator.
2.) The way it doesn’t print the full name of the sites on (n.d) retrievals.
3.) The Manual Parsing through Python packages needs to be reviewed.
4.) Changing the Author’s name and manually adjusting citations
5.) If able to grab a DOI from the document or meta data it should pull right from DOI rather than API calls
6.) The UI on Desktop needs adjusting
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EDIT [1/TBD]
EDIT [1/TBD]:
This will be stripped down and given away as my third template.
"3. The third is a citation generator, and it is called SillyCitationCreator
With zero adds you get zero friction. It uses GPT API calls for a fallback if it is not 70% confident through parsing without AI. API restricted to logged in users. This way if a specific user abuses the API calls you can manually restrict them. Looking into removing AI API before sharing the codebase. It is called SillyCitationCreator Will be adding API call restrictions soon"
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