Formerly pretty good free resource for academic citations now turned into a giant pile of steamy hot garbage by the incredible asswipes at Chegg, a corporate name that mostly calls forth the image of a debilitating sexually transmitted infection.
Recommend using instead: https://www.scribbr.com/citation/generator. At least until they also start demanding your firstborn daughter for each citation.
IrritableOcelot ( @IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org ) 19•8 months agoPro tip: use zotero. Its an open-source bibliography program, you can export the entire bibliography at once in whatever format you want.
K4mpfie ( @K4mpfie@feddit.de ) 4•8 months agoSuch a godsend! Especially the auto detection features. Just drop the PDF into it and it finds everything needed for a correction citation. I wish website citations would be better tho
OsrsNeedsF2P ( @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml ) 17•8 months agoTry https://www.mybib.com/ instead. No ads
N-E-N ( @NENathaniel@lemmy.ca ) 7•8 months agoI wouldn’t mind paying but their prices are always quite high. I’m not convinced these services are that expensive to run
morrowind ( @morrowind@lemmy.ml ) 5•8 months agoThere’s like 50 of these. If one enshittifies, jump to another.
Though if I was in academia, I wouldn’t mind paying a couple bucks for a high quality one
StarDreamer ( @stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English10•8 months agoI’m in academia and I can report that still nobody uses those.
For your own archiving, just use Zotero.
For writing papers, use bibtex.
All those citing websites are just scams for high school/undergrad students trying to find their footing. There is no reason they should exist.
K4mpfie ( @K4mpfie@feddit.de ) 3•8 months agoSure but the overwhelming amount of people citing are students, a group not known to possess a huge amount of spending money
_dev_null ( @_dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz ) 3•8 months ago“I never called her back because she gave me a raging case of the cheggs! I still can pee straight, and that it three months ago!”
joenforcer ( @joenforcer@midwest.social ) 3•8 months agoWhat the heck, people use apps for bibliographies now? FFS, just write it yourself.
I must be getting old. Back when I was in high school and college and needed to cite stuff, I did it all freehand. No such tools existed.
K4mpfie ( @K4mpfie@feddit.de ) 5•8 months agoYou probably weren’t graded for correct citation either. Nowadays you can get into real trouble for citing inconsistently or incorrectly. Especially with the automated plagiarism software that automatically runs over your texts once you turn them in.
joenforcer ( @joenforcer@midwest.social ) 2•8 months agoYou probably weren’t graded for correct citation either.
Oh yes I was. The college bookstore sold pocket style guides explicitly because of that.
macniel ( @DmMacniel@feddit.de ) 1•8 months agoCorrect citing can be learned, though.
And it’s an important tool in your academia toolbox.
Seeker of Carcosa ( @WilloftheWest@feddit.uk ) English2•8 months agoIt’s not a necessary tool for all fields. I don’t know your area but mathematics journals have vastly different style guides and citation standards. The best way to handle this is to export a bibtex citation which is just a list of metadata tags, then plug in the journal’s style header before compiling your TeX.
NotAPenguin ( @NotAPenguin@kbin.social ) 1•8 months agoNot a meme
goa_mpu ( @goa_mpu@feddit.de ) 2•8 months agoNobody seems to mind. I do. It drives me crazy. Apparently it’s just me.