By Ben Wieder, Chronicle of Higher Ed
A new smartphone application takes most of the grunt work out of citing books in scholarly papers. Quick Cite, which costs 99 cents and is available for both iPhones and Android-based phones, uses the camera on a smartphone to scan the bar code on the back of a book. It then e-mails you a bibliography-ready citation in one of four popular styles—APA, MLA, Chigaco, or IEEE. As reported by Hack College, the app was developed by a team of seven students at the University of Waterloo, who set out in November to develop seven apps in seven days. They dubbed the project Seven Cubed. QuickCite was the first app they developed and the only one so far released for sale. The app took about eight hours to make, says Ross Robinson, one of the student developers.
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