Academic Research Citation Manager and Paper Tracker VS Code Extension

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A VS Code extension for academic researchers, PhD students, and technical writers managing literature reviews and citation workflows. Imports DOI references to auto-populate BibTeX entries, generates formatted citations in APA, MLA, IEEE, and Chicago styles, highlights uncited claims in manuscripts

Installation

Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.

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Academic Research Citation Manager and Paper Tracker VS Code Extension

A VS Code extension for academic researchers, PhD students, and technical writers managing literature reviews and citation workflows. Imports DOI references to auto-populate BibTeX entries, generates formatted citations in APA, MLA, IEEE, and Chicago styles, highlights uncited claims in manuscripts with inline warnings, tracks reading status of papers in a sidebar panel, and exports reference lists compatible with LaTeX, Word, and Zotero.

Features

Core functionality

Installation

From VS Code Marketplace

Open VS Code
Press Ctrl+P (or Cmd+P on Mac)
Type ext install digitalforge.a3a38fac
Press Enter

From VSIX file

Download the .vsix file
In VS Code: Extensions > ··· > Install from VSIX
Select the downloaded file

Usage

Press Ctrl+Shift+P and search for Academic Research Citation Manager and Paper Tracker VS Code Extension to see all available commands.

Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+Alt+A (or Cmd+Shift+Alt+A on Mac)

Settings

Setting	Default	Description
`a3a38fac.enabled`	`true`	Enable/disable the extension
`a3a38fac.autoRun`	`false`	Auto-run on file open
`a3a38fac.logLevel`	`"info"`	Log verbosity

Requirements

VS Code 1.74.0 or higher

Contributing

Found a bug? Open an issue.

License

MIT — see LICENSE for details.