hardcider

🍺 Create citations from the command line

Installation

Run the following command to install hardcider - requires Node.js 8.x and higher

npm install -g hardcider

Usage

• hardcider website <url> - create a website citation from a URL

• hardcider book <isbn> - create a book citation from an ISBN-10 or ISBN-13

Example

$ hardcider website --mla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane

Fetching MLA citation...

“John Coltrane.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 24 Oct. 2018, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane.

Flags

The following flags apply to both the website and book commands

• --mla - returns an MLA Formatted Citation (default)
• --apa - returns an APA Formatted Citation
• --chicago - returns a Chicago Formatted Citation
• --ieee - returns an IEEE Formatted Citation
• --bibtex - returns an BibTeX Formatted Citation

Thanks

Built with commanderjs, chalk, puppeteer, and citationmachine.net. Open Source under the MIT License.

Note

This implementation uses puppeteer, a headless Chromium browser to navigate through a series of forms on citationmachine.net. It's faster than manually using any citation website I've come across, but it's admittedly a resource-intensive approach.