User:Salix alba/Citoid

Status:     Generally working as of 4 July 2020, but can sometimes return a blacklisted URL from the citoid server

This is a client for the Citoid service, used to generate citation templates from a URL. To use it, add

importScript('User:Salix alba/Citoid.js');

to your Special:MyPage/common.js. It will create a "Citoid" link in the Tools section of the sidebar. Clicking on that brings up a dialog where you can input a URL and get a filled in citation template.

The user interface

It is heavily based on User:Mvolz/veCiteFromURL (now defunct).

It is very much a quick hack and comes with no warranties.

The code is at User:Salix alba/Citoid.js with CSS at User:Salix alba/Citoid.css.

Version History

• 0.01 Initial version
• 0.02 - 3 June 2015
  • Fix URL for main citoid server.
  • Update the way that authors are reported.
  • Add extra text area with full output from citoid. This may contain further info which can be added to the citation manually.
• 0.03 - 12 April 2016
  • Fixed problem with cross site scripting
• 0.04 - 24 July 2016
  • Added support for the libraryCatalog field which is translated as |via= and used for Google Books etc.
• 0.05 - 24 Aug 2016
  • Add some suggestions from Aethyta (talk · contribs) adding PMID, PMCID, removing access-date from journal cites and adding a <ref> tag around the output. See User talk:Salix alba/Citoid#Citoid script improvements for details.
• 0.06 - 22 Oct 2016
  • Fix a bug when their are no authors. Restore access-date to Web-cites.
• 0.07 - 13 June 2017
  • Changed location of the Citoid server.
• 0.09 - 26 April 2021
  • Change accessdate to access-date to match new recommendation in citation templates
• 0.10 - 15 July 2021
  • Fix problem when no day is specified in date, e.g. doi/10.1109/MCG.1981.1673799 has a date of "1981-01"