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CiteDrive November 2021 Release

Feb 22, 2022

Timed perfectly to coincide with fall leaves, cooler weather and pumpkin spice lattes, we’re pleased to announce the November 2021 release of CiteDrive!

Timed perfectly to coincide with fall leaves, cooler weather, and pumpkin spice lattes, we’re pleased to announce the November 2021 release of CiteDrive! It was a whirlwind of activity following our announcement of integration with Overleaf earlier last month and we were thrilled to get such enthusiastic feedback from users like you. We believe strongly that a good product innovates while a great product finds a way to listen while innovating.

Human readable citation keys

Based on popular demand, we have updated our default citation keys for BibTeX output to be human-readable. Instead of our original UUID-based keys, you’ll now see that keys take on the format of \AuthorYearTitleword:abcd. For example, \Jones2015Algorithms:f81c

By default, CiteDrive will ensure that every reference within a project receives a unique citation key based on this format. Additionally, you have the option to override citation keys as you see fit (in case you prefer to use your own system of organization.)

The CiteDrive Companion browser extension was already a quick and easy way to add papers and web references to your project. Now it also streamlines adding book and DOI-based references to your project through a new right-click context menu! Simply select an ISBN or DOI within page text, right-click to open the context menu, and select one of the options under CiteDrive Companion.

Directly import BibTeX references

Have existing BibTeX references or a bibliography you’d like to manage through CiteDrive? We’ve now made it incredibly easy to import BibTeX directly into your project. Simply select “Paste BibTeX code” from the options under the Add menu:

BibTeX references pasted into the code field will then be imported and added to your project.

Extended BibTeX types and fields

Based on user feedback, we heard loud and clear that our hosted BibTeX files weren’t included as much rich detail as desired. We are now including all provided types and fields in our hosted output — whether or not CiteDrive itself supports the custom field.

As a perfect example, let’s say you’ve imported the following custom BibTeX code into your project: As a perfect example, let’s say you’ve imported the following custom BibTeX code into your project:

Although @something is an unsupported type within CiteDrive, your project’s hosted BibTeX file will now pass through the original code nearly verbatim — including all fields.

Other improvements and bug fixes:

Addressed an issue where CiteDrive Companion was unable to extract information from certain pages that should have worked.
Front-end performance improvements.
Citing websites & online media.

Special Thanks

Junbum Lee — GitHub
Vincent Toor
Sebastián Daza
Alexander
Derek
Thomas
Guys at Overleaf — Overleaf.com

Literature management with Overleaf

Feb 21, 2022

Complete your research pipeline with the powerful two-app. Link your two APPs and get all the updates in your BibTeX file without having to do anything at all manually in Overleaf — with a few simple mouse clicks. Concentrate on your work in Overleaf and leave the tedious bibliography and citation formatting to us.

A quick video tutorial on CiteDrive

Ideal for Overleaf

Overleaf enables teams of students and researchers to write papers simultaneously, from anywhere, in an easy-to-use, collaborative online LaTeX editor. Overleaf supports a variety of packages, including BibTeX, where you can manage your references. When you connect Overleaf to CiteDrive, you can automatically synchronize your project and BibTeX-database with Overleaf. With CiteDrive, easily collaborate on a project across global reach. When you discover a paper you want to use, use our browser extension, add it to your project with one click. You or anyone on your team can organize, cluster, annotate, and evaluate your material in a concise dashboard. Write faster at Overleaf: Insert in-text citations generated with CiteDrive. Since CiteDrive natively supports BibTeX, all changes are then automatically synced at Overleaf. You no longer need to upload and change references manually.

Native BibTeX support

We have designed our infrastructure for a BibTeX compliant delivery. We support all official entry and field types, which can be easily entered or imported with one click using our browser plugin: no tedious usage of converters or manual handling. Your project is always kept up to date for Overleaf and in a fashion that LaTeX will support.

Collect and organize

Notably, with a bigger team working on a single project, copy-pasting or manually entering data to BibTeX databases (.bib-file) can cause much confusion, and mistakes can quickly occur. With CiteDrive, you can easily add references with one click thanks to the browser extension and group the references orderly simply by dragging and dropping.

Fully collaborative

We know how essential teamwork is for scientists. Comprehensive tools for teams have become commonplace, and most importantly, papers are rarely written alone. We have therefore built our platform for collaboration. Add colleagues to your project at any time. You and your team collect, structure, and annotate references and material for your work, clearly organized in one project.

Device-agnostic

We conceptualized CiteDrive from the beginning as a form factor and device-agnostic platform for a seamless experience on all devices. Your on-the-go experience reviewing a paper your colleague presently saved should feel just as natural as CiteDrive on the desktop.

Simple but powerful!

CiteDrive aspires to be an actually easy-to-use, collaborative, and expandable tool for citing, managing references, creating bibliographies, and more.

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