Shift your attention to composing your paper rather than fretting over managing consistent references and citations. With the smooth integration of CiteDrive and Overleaf, effortlessly adding in-text citations to your paper without leaving your Overleaf project is now possible.
Features:
- In-text citations, made dead simple.
- Collect references from anywhere
- Natively Bib[La]TeX — not an afterthought.
- Collaborative, just like Overleaf
Getting started
Step 1: Create a project at CiteDrive and collect and organize your references.
When you initially sign in to CiteDrive, you will be presented with several CiteDrive project types to choose from. We will proceed to generate a new Overleaf project within CiteDrive, which we will name Thesis. Following that, you can proceed to include references in your newly created project. This is an example of what your project may look like:
CiteDrive simplifies the process of adding bibliographic references to your Overleaf project. You can add as many references as you need and organize them however you like. CiteDrive provides multiple ways to add references, including hand-adding BibTeX entries, importing a *.bib file, using the search engine, utilizing the ISBN resolver, or installing the CiteDrive browser extension to directly cite papers or websites from your web browser. The choice is yours!
Step 2: Connect your CiteDrive project with Overleaf.
To link your CiteDrive project with an Overleaf project, simply click on the .bib button located in the upper right corner of your CiteDrive project page.
Copy the link to Overleaf to connect both apps through our dynamic .bib file.
Now, returning to Overleaf. Click the New File icon and select From External URL.
Paste the CiteDrive link into the text field labeled URL to fetch the file from.
To incorporate your bibliography.bib into your LaTeX document, simply click on the “Create” button and use \bibliography{bibliography}. That’s all there is to it! If you want to ensure that you have the latest version of your CiteDrive .bib file, you can refresh the imported file in Overleaf.
About Overleaf
Overleaf empowers teams of students and researchers to collaboratively write papers from anywhere in an easy-to-use, online LaTeX editor. With the addition of one of many available packages– such as BibTeX– Overleaf can also automatically generate in-text citations and bibliographies based on reference keys pulled from a flat BibTeX database file. When combined with CiteDrive and the CiteDrive Companion browser add-on, manually maintaining your BibTeX database as well as the guesswork of writing in-text citation snippets becomes a thing of the past. Focus on the work at hand and Cite The Way You Write.
About CiteDrive
CiteDrive was born out of a common refrain among our team, friends, and fellow academics that managing references felt so clunky compared with today’s consumer-grade tools and collaborative editors. Worse yet, there weren’t really any good solutions that were truly built to serve those authoring LaTeX instead of it merely being an afterthought.
After a couple of initial failed experiments, the first end-to-end experience focusing on Overleaf users was piloted in fall 2021 and quickly evolved into the platform as it exists today.
CiteDrive continues to relentlessly focus on refining and simplifying the experience of discovering references and citing as you write. After a couple of initial failed experiments, the first end-to-end experience focusing on Overleaf users was piloted in fall 2021 and quickly evolved into the platform as it exists today.
