BibTeX-native reference management for seamless LaTeX and R Markdown collaboration.
CiteDrive is a cloud-based, BibTeX-native reference management system specifically architected for researchers and developers utilizing TeX-based ecosystems. Unlike legacy reference managers that treat BibTeX as an export format, CiteDrive treats it as the core data structure, ensuring zero-loss synchronization between the management interface and writing environments like Overleaf, RStudio, and VS Code. By 2026, CiteDrive has positioned itself as the critical middleware in the 'Publishing-as-Code' movement, allowing teams to manage citations via a web UI while maintaining a live, dynamic connection to their .bib source files. The platform utilizes a collaborative workspace model, where multiple researchers can contribute to a single bibliography project, with changes reflected instantly across all linked documents. This technical alignment with developer workflows—including native support for Quarto and R Markdown—distinguishes it from general-purpose tools like Zotero or Mendeley, which often require manual exports or cumbersome third-party plugins to maintain sync. Its architecture is optimized for high-integrity metadata retrieval, utilizing DOI and ISBN resolution to ensure citation accuracy in high-stakes academic and technical publishing.
Data is stored natively as BibTeX entries, preventing character encoding issues and metadata loss during export.
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Generates a persistent URL that serves a raw .bib file, allowing external LaTeX compilers to fetch live data.
Multi-user editing with conflict resolution for shared reference databases.
Polls multiple metadata registries (Crossref, DataCite) to populate all BibTeX fields from a single identifier.
Regex-based generator for BibTeX keys (e.g., [author][year][title:3]).
Direct integration with the R ecosystem for reproducible research documents.
Detects page context to extract relevant metadata even on non-standard academic sites.
Multiple authors frequently add references during a paper's development, leading to duplicate entries and broken LaTeX builds.
Registry Updated:2/7/2026
The LaTeX document compiles without manual file updates.
Ensuring that the .bib file used in a computation-heavy report is always the most current version.
Managing thousands of papers across a research lab with varying levels of technical skill.