OneCite - Citation & Academic Reference Toolkit

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OneCite is a command-line tool and Python library for citation management. It accepts DOIs, paper titles, arXiv IDs, and mixed inputs, and outputs formatted bibliographic entries.

Getting Started

User Guides

API Reference

Additional Resources

Key Features

  • Fuzzy Matching - Match references against multiple academic databases

  • BibTeX Output - Standards-compliant .bib files rendered with bibtexparser

  • 4-stage Pipeline - 4-stage process for consistent output

  • Field Completion - Enrich entries with missing metadata

  • 🎓 7+ Citation Types - Handles journal articles, conference papers, books, software, datasets, theses, and preprints

  • Many Identifier Types - DOI, PMID, arXiv ID, ISBN, GitHub URLs, Zenodo DOI, or plain text queries

Data Sources

OneCite integrates with multiple authoritative academic data sources:

Quick Start

Installation:

pip install onecite

Create a references.txt file:

10.1038/nature14539

Attention is all you need, Vaswani et al., NIPS 2017

Goodfellow, I., Bengio, Y., & Courville, A. (2016). Deep Learning. MIT Press.

Run OneCite:

onecite process references.txt -o results.bib --quiet

For more information, see Quick Start Guide.

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