OverCite by cheyanneshariat

add citations in Overleaf without leaving the page.

Place your cursor inside a \cite{...} command, press Alt+Shift+E, review likely matches, and insert BibTeX directly into your project bibliography.

Choose your subject area in settings:physics, math, computer science, astrophysics, biology/medicine, and chemistry. OverCite supports ADS/SciX, arXiv, INSPIRE, Crossref, PubMed, and DataCite.

Getting started:
1. Install OverCite, then open Add-on Preferences.
2. Choose your subject area.
Astrophysics: add your NASA ADS/SciX API token.
(sign in to NASA ADS or SciX → Settings → API Token)
3. Open Overleaf, place the cursor inside a \cite{...} command, and press Alt+Shift+E. That's it!

Using OverCite in a paper?

If OverCite helped you prepare a manuscript, please acknowledge it with:

This work made use of \texttt{OverCite} \citep{Shariat2026}, an in-editor citation tool for \LaTeX.


More details: https://github.com/cheyanneshariat/OverCite