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Earlier, I posted\u00a0about adding MR links to Wikipedia pages<\/a>. \u00a0The point of that post was that it was fairly simple to add a link to MathSciNet while editing a Wikipedia page. \u00a0In March 2014, Scott Morrison<\/a>, a MathOverflow user (and moderator), created an add-on that used\u00a0MathSciNet to verify and insert a reference in\u00a0a post to MathOverflow. \u00a0You can read about it on MathOverflow here<\/a>. \u00a0Now, MathOverflow has made a version of Morrison’s citation helper a built-in feature of the site. \u00a0Read about it here<\/a>. \u00a0In what follows, I will give an example of how to the citation helper works, using a paper of Robert Bryant<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you are answering a question, say, about solitons in Ricci flow, you may have reason to cite Robert Bryant. \u00a0So, in your answer window, you start writing<\/p>\n OK – which paper by Robert Bryant? \u00a0He has written a few. \u00a0A relevant paper is his paper dealing with\u00a0gradient K\u00e4hler Ricci solitons. \u00a0To put that in, I launch the Citation Helper. \u00a0 In the tool bar above the box where I can enter text, there are a few icons. \u00a0I want the icon that looks like a speech bubble with a link in it:<\/p>\n Clicking that launches the Citation Helper, \u00a0which now lies over\u00a0the edit window for MathOverflow. \u00a0In the top line, I enter what I\u00a0know about the citation. \u00a0In this case, I am putting in the author’s name and what I think is the title of the paper.<\/p>\n I hit <Enter> and the Citation Helper starts looking.<\/p>\n There was only one match. \u00a0Even so, I have to click the match to activate it. \u00a0(In case there are several matches, clicking one of them selects it.) \u00a0The last line of each\u00a0match offers some previews. \u00a0In this case, there is a link to the MathSciNet item for the article. \u00a0If the Citation Helper can find the paper on the arXiv, you will be offered an “arXiv” link for previewing, too. \u00a0The preview helps you verify that you have really found the paper you meant.<\/p>\n To insert the citation into the answer, I need to click the button at the bottom right of the box<\/p>\n Once this is done, some code has been added<\/span> to my text:<\/p>\n The citation helper has filled in the correct bibliographic information for the paper, along with the MR number of the paper. \u00a0Moreover, you can see that the title of the paper is a link to its listing on MathSciNet . \u00a0On MathOverflow, it would look like<\/p>\n That’s it! \u00a0Now you can not only make sure you have the exact citation you meant, but you can provide links to more information about it from MathSciNet!<\/p>\n Thanks…![\"Entering](\"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/files\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-MO-1a.png\")
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<\/a><\/p>\nYou should check the paper by Robert Bryant:<\/code><\/p>\n<cite authors=\"Robert L. Bryant\" mrnumber=\"2521644\" cite=\"_Ast'erisque_ (2008), no. 321, 51--97\">_Robert L. Bryant_, MR 2521644 [**Gradient K\u00e4hler Ricci solitons**](http:\/\/www.ams.org\/mathscinet-getitem?mr=2521644), _Ast'erisque_ (2008), no. 321, 51--97.<\/cite><\/code><\/span><\/p>\n![\"Result](\"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/files\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-MO-5.png\")
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\n<\/strong>I want to thank Robert Bryant<\/a>, who first pointed out Scott Morrison’s citation helper to me. \u00a0I am also very grateful to\u00a0Oded<\/a>, a Stack Overflow developer, who was quite helpful (and patient) with my questions about the Citation Helper and who was\u00a0involved in \u00a0converting Morrison’s user script into a script supported by Stack Exchange \/ MathOverflow.<\/p>\n