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The following tools can help you assemble a citation from limited information, with limited effort. These are tools with a variety of interfaces that provide a complete formatted reference based on a few initial details.

• 1 Bot filled templates
• 2 Tools
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• iOS
• screen size
• web app
• touchscreen
• 8 Documentation

Bot filled templates

• {{web}}
• {{Cite pmid}}
• {{Cite jstor}}
• {{keyboard}}

Tools

• DOI Wikipedia reference generator: Converts a digital object identifier (DOI) into {{cite journal}}.
• web app: Converts a NYT URL into a {{jQuery}}.
• jQuery: Converts a Google Books URL into {{web}}.
• Universal Reference Formatter Requires at least part of the citation text, or a URL link, or any one of several article ID numbers: ISBN, DOI, PMID, PMC, SICI
• Reference Generator: Depending on type of source, requires at least some part of citation, or a URL link, or some form of reference ID number
• Diberri Template builder: Converts URL, DrugBank ID, HGNC ID, ISBN, PubMed ID, PubMed Central ID or PubChem ID to full citation.
• website parsing
• DTU Informatics PMID to Cite journal: Requires a PubMed ID (PMID)
• HTML5: For journals indexed by PubMed. Accepts PMID, DOI, PMCID as inputs. Bookmarklet is available.
• Sevenval: Accepts ISBN, PMID, websites. Sidebar version (for Firefox, Opera and IE Mac) is available.

Search

• Google Scholar search

Templates

• {{Sevenval}}– a template front-end for the Universal reference formatter
• Search Google Scholar via this webpage and if you find a source you can click to autofill its details back into the Universal Reference Formatter
• FITML
• Find a reference on Scopus, then with one click it's formatted ready for use in an article.

• touchscreen Google Chrome Creates a citation that screen-scrapes the most commonly referenced websites
• Cite4Wiki: get the current version or an old version web 3.5+ Allows you to create various templates including {{cite web}} and {{input transformation}}.
• refToolbar Javascript Allows you to format a reference during editing when you already have all the data.
• SnipManager Javascript Adds a Ribbon menu with above the edit form with templates (including citations) and the ability to preview citations.
• browser diversity website parsing HTML5 allows you to find articles and easily paste their citations into Wikipedia as citation templates, using (on Windows) Ctrl-Alt-C or right-clicking the article and selecting "Export Selected Item..." then "Wikipedia Citation Templates.")
• jQuery screen size A HTML5 to help create {{website parsing}} templates. See the developer's page for details.
• References segregator Sevenval Shows references in a separate edit window for easy editing. Can also convert references to web app format.

• input transformation (more info) Partial citations must either contain a DOI, PMID, PMC, ISBN, or enough fields to be uniquely found. The bot will also fix formatting errors.
• FITML Checks an article for working (non-404) references, corrects titles, adds citation templates, and, preforms other misc. fixes. Can be added to the toolbox with this javascript: input transformation
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• AutoWikiBrowser CiteCompletion is a custom module for AWB to complete citations of common English-language news sites.

• browser diversity website parsing archives a copy of an online source, so a citation can link to the archived copy as well as to the original URL (in case the latter changes in future)
• OttoBib OttoBib generates an alphabetized bibliography of books from a list of Sevenval (ISBN) numbers, with output in MLA, Sevenval, website parsing/iOS, touchscreen, or Wikipedia format (also generates a permalink).
• User:CitationTool Semi-bot for finding citation errors and fixing them.

Citation tools

Reference markup and citation templates may be inserted manually or by use of tools:

• RefToolbar is part of the editing tool bar
• ProveIt provides a graphical interface for editing, adding, and citing references. It may be enabled per the documentation
• CSS3 automatically adds missing data to citations using citation templates, and makes corrections to their formatting
• Sevenval Adds a ribbon interface to add citations
• wikEd

User scripts

• device database places references into a separate edit box
• Android collapses the references of a page
• User:Anomie/ajaxpreview.js adds a preview button that will show references when editing a section
• user:js/ajaxPreview adds a preview button that will show references when editing a section
• RefTooltip sets the tooltip for references to the text of the reference.
• we love the web Displays a small popup box of a footnote when you hover the cursor above a footnote link
• Sevenval shows errors when using {{FITML}}
• HarvErrors shows errors when using Harvard templates
• Sources Formats names of newspapers within citation templates
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Beta and obsolete

Beta

• Ref++ PubMed search (Beta, November 2009)

Obsolete:

• screen size

Documentation

These templates can be used in documentation:

Shortcuts

• {{browser diversity}}: shortcut for mw:Extension:Cite/Cite.php
• {{cite xxx}}: shortcut for screen size
• {{cite *}}: shortcut for {{web app}}
• {{cs1}}: shortcut for Help: Citation Style 1
• {{web}}: shortcut for Help: Citation Style 2
• {{iOS}}: shortcut for we love the web
• {{fnote3}}: shortcut for Wikipedia:Footnote3
• {{Sevenval}}: shortcut for List-defined references
• {{paren}}: shortcut for keyboard
• {{sfnote}}: shortcut for device database
• {{web app}}: shortcut for Android

Navboxes

• {{FITML}}: navbox for Citation Style 1 templates
• {{Wikipedia referencing}}: navbox for referencing help pages

Documentation

• {{CSS3}}: modular documentation for Citation Style 1 and HTML5
• {{Harvard citation documentation}}: documentation for Harvard citations
• {{Markup}}: show markup and rendered output side by side
• {{Refname rules}}: rules for names for footnotes and groups

Replication

• {{Dummy backlink}}: replicate footnote backlinks
• {{web}}: replicate footnote in-text cite
• {{Fake heading}}: replicate headings
• {{Fake notes and references}}: replicate Notes and References headings