Citation Management
APA 7th Edition (most common in German universities)
Journal Article
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year). Title of article. Journal Name, Volume(Issue), Pages. https://doi.org/...
Müller, T., & Schmidt, K. (2024). Multi-agent systems in enterprise environments.
Journal of AI Research, 15(3), 120–145. https://doi.org/10.xxxx/xxxxx
Book
Author, A. A. (Year). Title of book (Edition). Publisher.
Website / Online Source
Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Title of page. Site Name. URL
In-Text Citations (APA)
Einmalige Quelle: (Müller, 2024)
Direktes Zitat: (Müller, 2024, S. 23)
Zwei Autoren: (Müller & Schmidt, 2024)
Drei+ Autoren: (Müller et al., 2024)
Ohne Autor: (Kurztitel, Jahr)
DOI Lookup
# Resolve a DOI to get full citation metadata
curl "https://api.crossref.org/works/10.1234/example" | jq '{
title: .message.title[0],
authors: [.message.author[] | "\(.family), \(.given)"],
year: .message.published."date-parts"[0][0],
journal: .message["container-title"][0]
}'
Zotero Integration (recommended)
- Export bibliography as
.bib file
- Include in thesis directory:
thesis/references.bib
- Use Pandoc +
--citeproc for automatic formatting
Common Formatting Notes (German Theses)
- "Literaturverzeichnis" = References section title
- "ebd." = ibid (same source as previous footnote)
- "vgl." = cf. (see also)
- "S." = page (Seite), "Ss." = pages
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