LucaMar 31
You found the paper. Now where's the BibTeX?
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It happens every time! You track down the right reference — some older journal article, a conference paper, a preprint — scroll down to "Cite this paper", and get… a plain text citation.
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Show threadLucaMar 31
We built a simple tool to fix exactly this: text2bibtex.
The app is simple: paste any plain-text citation and get a clean, ready-to-use BibTeX entry back.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c319faed-3373-4d2e-89f8-d0561d2ccd2d
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Show threadLucaMar 31

But the real magic is the bookmarklet.

Drag it once to your bookmarks bar. Then, on any webpage — a journal site, a preprint server, a bibliography — highlight the citation, click the bookmarklet, and the BibTeX is already in your clipboard.

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Show threadLucaMar 31

No tab-switching, no copy-pasting, no reformatting.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/73b335c6-3de5-49bf-b333-8dc6d0d2bf6a
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Show threadLuca
Under the hood it's powered by #Grobid, a battle-tested machine learning library for extracting structured data from scientific documents. The same technology used to process millions of PDFs at scale — now doing one job really well, in one click.
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Mar 31 at 9:21amFedica
Show threadLucaMar 31
Results are automatically extracted, so always give the output a quick review before dropping it into your .bib file — especially on older or inconsistently formatted references.
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Show threadLucaMar 31
If you've ever lost time reformatting citations by hand, this one's for you.
https://sciencialab.github.io/text2bibtex/
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Citation to BibTeX