Has anyone written an interface through which i can get a citation of a book/paper from amazon.com
Thanks for the suggestions from fellow users. I'm updating the questions to detail in more specifics:
- Citeulike.org issue: I used BibTeX "Export from My library" features. However its not that accurate..it cannot extract all meta-data from amazon and complete the bibliographic reference
- Mendeley Desktop : I used is a long way round, I want something where I give the URL and it gives me back the bibtex entry
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If you use Firefox, the Zotero add-on should be able to store a citation, which you can then export as BibTeX.
For a completely Web based solution with no addons:
Lead2Amazon
Go to put ISBN or title, choose BibTeX output and will look up in Amazon and generate the BibTeX, as a bonus it will contain the ISBN and the Amazon URL.
Tungare's ISBN to BibTeX Converter
Alternative using ISBN only: it will generate the BibTeX including the Amazon URL.
Ottobib
, the same but it will not generate the Amazon URL. Can do multiple ISBN searches at a time.
2In addition to zotero and citeulike, there is also Mendeley. It allows citation extraction from Amazon via a bookmarklet, and has bibtex export and syncing.
1CiteULike is a social bookmarking service with bibtex support (just copy/paste from the webpage), and Post URL () seems to do a quite decent job extracting bibliographic metadata from Amazon book pages.
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