# New Qt app --- QuickBib: DOI ---\> BibTeX **URL:** \ **Category:** Tips and Tricks\ **Tags:** apps\ **Created:** [November 11, 2025, 3:03am UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/new-qt-app-quickbib-doi-bibtex/41577 "2025-11-11T03:03:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![archisman](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/archisman/32/2481_2.png) [@archisman](https://discuss.kde.org/u/archisman)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2025, 3:03am UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/new-qt-app-quickbib-doi-bibtex/41577/1 "2025-11-11T03:03:15Z")
I recently made a software (called **QuickBib** ) which helps citing papers in LaTeX. ![quickbib](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/archisman-panigrahi/quickbib/main/assets/screenshots/quickbib_arxiv.png) Given a DOI number/journal link/arXiv link of a paper, it readily produces the BibTeX entry, which can be copied to the LaTeX editor (e.g. TeXStudio/Overleaf) to cite the paper. Webpage: [QuickBib — Get BibTeX from a DOI](https://archisman-panigrahi.github.io/QuickBib/) The software is available on [Flathub](https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.archisman_panigrahi.QuickBib) and [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/quickbib) as well as a [PPA](https://launchpad.net/~apandada1/+archive/ubuntu/quickbib) and also the [AUR](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/quickbib). Source is released under GPL3 on [GitHub](https://github.com/archisman-panigrahi/QuickBib/). It uses the python package [doi2bib3](https://pypi.org/project/doi2bib3/) as its backend. Also, it is cross platform, and available on Windows and Mac (see the website for details). How to use? [See examples](https://archisman-panigrahi.github.io/QuickBib/#examples). * * * I made it to specifically address one problem: Often, one has to cite a lot of papers while writing a research paper. It is easy to find a paper from google, but is causes a huge pain to manually make a BibTeX entry for the paper (for this particular use case, QuickBib is much faster than Zotero/Google Scholar.). With QuickBib, the user can just copy paste the DOI link from the journal website and it will produce ready-made BibTeX (it also has a handy copy-to-clipboard button). While the use-case of the software is very specific (intended for researchers for writing papers), it would be beneficial to a lot of people doing research. * * * QuickBib uses python with PyQt6. ---
**Author:** ![Begasus](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/begasus/32/6789_2.png) [@Begasus](https://discuss.kde.org/u/Begasus)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2025, 10:16am UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/new-qt-app-quickbib-doi-bibtex/41577/2 "2025-11-11T10:16:06Z")
Default build/setup from source good on Haiku also. 🙂 ![QuickBib-0.3.3](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/uploads/default/original/3X/2/8/28d3db560f3f87155953cc462b317a25a8dd94bd.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![archisman](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/archisman/32/2481_2.png) [@archisman](https://discuss.kde.org/u/archisman)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/new-qt-app-quickbib-doi-bibtex/41577/3 "2025-11-11T14:35:03Z")
Here it produced a nonsense result because the input was in wrong format. Please enter the `DOI number` instead of `DOI e.g. DOI number`. When it sees a text that is not a DOI number, it searches crossref and returns whatever crossref does. ---
**Author:** ![Begasus](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/begasus/32/6789_2.png) [@Begasus](https://discuss.kde.org/u/Begasus)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/new-qt-app-quickbib-doi-bibtex/41577/4 "2025-11-11T14:56:45Z")
Me just being unfamiliar with subjects, I guess this looks better? ![QuickBib](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/uploads/default/original/3X/e/9/e93fe08a5bab8170296ca91b7a2dbf5799d13b18.png) ---
**Author:** ![archisman](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/archisman/32/2481_2.png) [@archisman](https://discuss.kde.org/u/archisman)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2025, 3:13pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/new-qt-app-quickbib-doi-bibtex/41577/5 "2025-11-11T15:13:29Z")
You are supposed to enter `10.1038/nphys1170`— that is the full DOI number. Do not write DOI in the input box ---
**Author:** ![archisman](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/archisman/32/2481_2.png) [@archisman](https://discuss.kde.org/u/archisman)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2025, 8:26pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/new-qt-app-quickbib-doi-bibtex/41577/6 "2025-11-11T20:26:15Z")
I released a new version which also includes a “How to use” section in the about dialog