CiteDrive 'BibTeX' Companion

Saving articles from the web browser to Overleaf with a single click

CiteDrive 'BibTeX' Companion: Simplify Your Academic Writing

CiteDrive 'BibTeX' Companion is a Chrome extension that significantly streamlines the academic writing process. It aids in the discovery and organization of articles, books, and websites, allowing users to easily generate citations for BibTeX and BibLaTeX bibliographies directly from their browser. Its core features include one-click reference collection, customizable BibTeX code, and seamless in-text citation insertion into Overleaf papers.
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Extension stats

Users: 3,000+
Rating: 4.00
(6)
Version: 4.3.1 (Last updated: 2024-12-02)
Creation date: 2021-12-28
Risk impact: Low risk impact
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Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • scripting
Size: 16.28K

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Extension summary

Effortlessly collect, organize, and generate in-text citations for your BibTeX and BibLaTeX bibliographies. Whether you're working in Overleaf or RStudio (Posit), seamlessly integrate references into your LaTeX, Quarto, or R Markdown documents without ever leaving your project!

CiteDrive is built from the ground up to stay out of your way and help you focus on writing.

ONE-CLICK REFERENCE COLLECTION

Collecting references for your paper has never been easier. With the CiteDrive Companion browser add-on, discover articles, books, or websites through your regular sources– Google Scholar, Pubmed, and many others– and simply click the CiteDrive icon on your toolbar to add the reference directly to your CiteDrive project.

CUSTOMIZABLE BIBTEX CODE

Unlike many other reference managers, CiteDrive is Bib[La]TeX native and gives you complete control to customize your BibTeX reference snippets as you collect them. Better yet, your customizations carry through as you connect your CiteDrive and Overleaf (or other LaTeX editors) projects or RStudio (Quarto and R Markdown) so you can take full advantage of custom field extensions.

SEAMLESS IN-TEXT CITATIONS

Inserting in-text citations to your Overleaf paper from your CiteDrive project is a snap with the browser add-on. Simply look for the new “Insert Citation” button at the top of the Overleaf screen, select the reference of interest, and the appropriate in-text citation will be generated and inserted for you.

User reviews

Works perfectly in combination with Overleaf
by Jannis S., 2024-06-30

Nice tool, but it does not work well with normal web articles from journal and blogs, only with scientistic sites like mdpi. And I miss a function to have tags added to the saved sources automatically.
by unknown XXX, 2023-10-12

Had a few problems getting this to work properly, but now quite happy with it. Integrates with Overleaf nicely. Still a work in progress, but has lots of potential.
by Steve, 2021-10-20
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Extension safety

Risk impact

CiteDrive 'BibTeX' Companion requires very minimum permissions.

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CiteDrive 'BibTeX' Companion has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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