Let's get MathOverflow's “Citation Helper” here, as well!

Question

MathOverflow and Math.SE have a citation helper that adds a new button to the post editor to allow references to journal articles (and conference papers?) to be added to posts quicker and easier.

Of course we need this, too. Who agrees with me?

Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-17 09:38:04Z

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Update:

Thank you everyone for your input and feedback. The citation helper has been added to this site.

Enjoy!

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I suspect citation support would be a good fit here, but I don't have an objective overview of your content or a sense if anybody would actually use this to make that case. The best way I know to make this happen is is to demonstrate a need for citations in actual practice. I'm basing that off how we decide if a site needs features like LaTeX support (for example).

I would suggest compiling a collection of posts below which would be markedly improved with citation support. If the benefit to this site can be demonstrated substantively, I can send it off to the folks who can make that happen.

Good luck!

edited Jun 17, 2020 at 9:38

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answered Sep 19, 2018 at 17:40

Robert Cartaino

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$\begingroup$ @Bjørn On an administrative note (talking over your shoulder to the rest of the community), right now you're one user asking AND doing all the work to show this is needed, so I don't really have any insight if others want/need this feature. I don't know how to fix this "ask", but posting your list as an answer might spur others into doing the same for more signal and feedback. Pragmatically speaking, I can probably get this enabled this time, but I'm trying to figure how to make similar requests functionally more effective without assuming everything said here is both correct and useful. $\endgroup$
– Robert Cartaino
Sep 24, 2018 at 17:23
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$\begingroup$ OK thanks, I've posted my list as an answer. I see what you're saying about not just saying Yes to everything... $\endgroup$
– Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen Mod
Sep 24, 2018 at 17:33
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$\begingroup$ @BjørnKjos-Hanssen Nice job! I was able to get the citation helper added to this site. $\endgroup$
– Robert Cartaino
Oct 5, 2018 at 14:55
$\begingroup$ A thousand thanks $\endgroup$
– Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen Mod
Oct 5, 2018 at 18:34