You're making slides, not building a library. You want clean, consistent references in your preferred style — fast.
Scholar Sidekick is built for that moment.
How it works
- Paste anything: a DOI, ISBN, PMID, arXiv ID, or URL
- Get a formatted citation instantly
- Copy it straight into slides, speaker notes, or handouts
No importing. No syncing. No database to maintain.
The right tool for the job
Reference managers are excellent for theses and manuscripts. For ad-hoc talk prep, they're often more friction than value.
If you wouldn't bother adding it to a library, Scholar Sidekick is probably the right tool.
Scholar Sidekick is best for
- Slide decks and conference presentations
- Journal clubs and teaching sessions
- Lab meetings
- Quick background reading
What you get
- Stateless — nothing to clean up later
- Deterministic — stable formatting (same input → same output)
- Style-complete — 10k+ citation styles
- Format-first exports:
- Plain text
- BibTeX
- CSL JSON
- CSV
- RIS
- EndNote (Refer, XML)
- RefWorks
- MEDLINE
- Zotero RDF
It fits naturally into talk prep, not long-form writing.
