February 16th, 2007 in Lifehack, Technology

OttoBib – Free Bibliography Generator

Back in high school I deplored writing bibliographies. All the formatting rules drove me up the wall and I never understood the need for a standard of referencing books.

How I wish OttoBib was available back then.

This handy little browser app takes the ISBN [International Standard Book Numbers] of the books you want to reference and changes that into one of three formats, MLA, APA, or Chicago/Turabian. That’s it, instant references.

OttoBib accepts both ISBN-10 and ISBN-13, and will also spit out a permalink of the results so you don’t have to enter the numbers again.

Make a bibliography. It’s free, easy and OttoMatic – [OttoBib]

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Will says on February 16th, 2007 at 9:39 am

Hmmm…I tried three different books in two different formats, and none of them were correct.
Gideon says on February 16th, 2007 at 12:44 pm

OttoBib is great when it works.

Unfortunately, it often does not. It seems to get about 1 in 4 books correct from the ISBN
brandonjp says on February 17th, 2007 at 3:11 pm

EasyBib.com is a little better at times – you might have to input more, but it handles the formatting better. And allows you to include all your non-book sources like periodicals and web sources.
http://www.easybib.com
Suchitra says on February 19th, 2007 at 12:38 am

http://www.librarything.com – a related web-site
Meagan says on March 2nd, 2007 at 2:30 pm

report due in 30 min!!! plz hurry!
urchin says on March 12th, 2007 at 4:34 pm

The teacher requests Turabian style bib and footnote. ottbib is nice but doesn’t work in all format. And it does not generate the footnote for my paper though. I would recommend another website instead. It is free and you can even transfer the footnote into bib with one click.
http://www.eturabian.com
Jonathan says on June 8th, 2007 at 3:23 pm

Might even try http://www.bibomatic.com, it’s another great bibliography generator and it’s completely free. No ads even…
John says on November 5th, 2009 at 10:41 pm

I am an instructor at Northampton Community College in Bethlehem, PA and I’d like to know if I could use the picture of a pile of books on a programmable logic controller tutorial website that I’m developing?

I will cite the source in any way you’d like.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

John