How I add citations while writing in Quarto

[diyanko]

Description

I made a small app called Ibis because I wanted to look up a reference and cite it without leaving the document I was writing. I use a few different editors, and I wanted the same shortcut wherever I was working.

In a Quarto source file, I press the shortcut and type an author’s name, a few words from the title, or a citation key if I already know it. When I find the reference, I press Enter to insert a citation like [@vale2024]. The key needs to be in the bibliography configured for the document, and Quarto formats the citation when it renders.

Ibis reads from Zotero or a .bib file. It’s free and open source, and it’s still early. If you try it in Quarto, I’d love to hear where it gets in your way.

https://ibiscite.org

[mcanouil]

Thanks for sharing.

May I ask what's the benefits compared to the native support of I would say, the same feature offered by the Quarto extension for VSCode/Positron (also available in RStudio)?