CITATION GENERATOR · BIBTEX

BibTeX generator.

Paste a DOI to get a BibTeX entry for your .bib file, with a readable citation key. Build up a list and download it as one file. Free, no account, and it runs in your browser.

What you get

@article{lecun2015deep,
  title = {Deep learning},
  author = {LeCun, Yann and Bengio, Yoshua and Hinton, Geoffrey},
  year = {2015},
  doi = {10.1038/nature14539},
  issn = {0028-0836},
  volume = {521},
  number = {7553},
  pages = {436--444},
  publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},
  journal = {Nature}
}

• The key is the first author’s surname, the year and the first meaningful word of the title, such as lecun2015deep. Two works that would share a key in your list get a, b and so on added.
• Entry types follow the work: @article for journal articles, @inproceedings for conference papers, @book, @incollection for chapters, @phdthesis, @techreport, and @misc for datasets, software and anything else.
• Special characters such as &, % and _ are escaped so the file compiles, and page ranges use -- for an en dash.

Use it in LaTeX

Save your list with Download as citations.bib, put it beside your .tex file, and cite with the key:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Deep networks learn layered representations~\cite{lecun2015deep}.
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{citations}
\end{document}

With BibLaTeX, use \addbibresource{citations.bib} and \printbibliography instead. BibLaTeX reads BibTeX’s journal and year fields as they are.

What to check

BibTeX styles may lower-case words in a title. Wrap a word that must keep its capitals in braces, such as {DNA} or {Bayesian}, before you compile. The entry is built from what the publisher registered for the DOI, so add a missing issue or page range from the article itself. For Zotero, EndNote or Mendeley, choose RIS in the style menu instead.

Need a formatted reference instead? The same tool does APA, MLA, Chicago and eleven more styles.

Keep your references in a library

Docr’d is a research library for papers, books and standards. It keeps your PDFs, notes and highlights together, and copies citations in BibTeX, CSL JSON, RIS and fourteen citation styles, and can keep a .bib file up to date as your library changes. The desktop apps for macOS, Windows and Linux are free to use without an account. Docr’d is in early access, so you may run into rough edges.

Credits

Citations are formatted in your browser by citeproc-js, (c) Frank Bennett — citeproc-js implements the Citation Style Language, used under the Common Public Attribution License 1.0 (see our modification notice), with styles from the CSL project under CC BY-SA 3.0. Records come from Crossref and DataCite. More on how it works on the citation generator page.