Every academic is familiar with the joy of maintaining correct citations.  Hunting down the paper you intend, constructing the BibTeX entry, naming it, then fixing up the 3 other places in your paper where you referenced the same paper under a slightly different key.  It’s an annoyance.

QuickCite relieves some of that annoyance, by looking up references for you and updating your .bib file automatically.  It handily
slips into your Makefile:

paper.pdf: ...
    quickcite -b paper.bib *.tex
    latex ...

Any missing citation entries are automatically resolved (currently, just via DBLP). For example, in my tex file somewhere I have:

This was a really awesome paper \cite{PiccoloPower}.

But this was even better \cite{Mapreduce}.

QuickCite will hunt down the appropriate entries for you:

quickcite -b paper.bib paper.tex
...
Missing reference for PowerPiccolo
Result to use for {PowerPiccolo}:
  (0) Skip this citation
  (1) A novel fuzzy system for wind turbines reactive power control.
      Geev Mokryani, Pierluigi Siano, Antonio Piccolo, Vito Calderaro, Carlo Cecati
  (2) Piccolo: Building Fast, Distributed Programs with Partitioned Tables.
      Russell Power, Jinyang Li
  (3) Impact of Chosen Error Criteria in RSS-based Localization: Power vs Distance vs Relative Distance Error Minimization.
      Giuseppe Bianchi, Nicola Blefari-Melazzi, Francesca Lo Piccolo

Missing reference for Mapreduce
Result to use for {Mapreduce}:
...

That’s it! Your bibtex file will be updated with the appropriate entries, so you won’t be queried again.

The source is available on github.