The web service intends to make the needs of typing in reference records less frequently
and to make it easy to switch among different citation styles.
The commonly used personal library can take considerable amount of time for users
to enter and to organize paper items. Our free web service attacks this problem
along two approaches. One is to read in records from online resources, using a semi-automated
software program. Another is to provide users a platform to enter their citation
records, sharing the workloads among many users.
If you plan to submit a manuscript to a journal and change your mind later to another
journal with a different citation style, it can be a pain to update the citation
list. The free paper citation service makes it easy to switch among citation styles by selecting
the listed styles in a dropdown list. Currently, there are several style options
to choose. More styles can be added on users' request.
It is common to find errors in published reference lists due to typing errors, incorrect
source data, etc. The current paper citation service let registered users to edit and correct
paper records in the shared online library when they spot any error in the records.
We expect the paper records to get more complete and accurate as more people
are using this online service.