Along teaching scientific research is second most important task for every university and faculty member. Research results are commonly published as journal papers, book chapters or as conference proceedings with the purpose to communicate the findings in academic circles, serve as promotion, or be used for tenure or reapplication. Maintaining the list of scientific references, can be a time consuming and tedious activity. To help along the process we have created a Web application named References that makes the process of editing and formatting the references partially automated and less time consuming. In this paper we present the architecture of the application, its functionalities and newly added feature that enables importing references both from structured and unstructured data.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.