Wikipedia:Citation expander

This adds a button (the exact appearance may differ) to trigger Citation bot from the edit window! This button will work even if the bot is blocked.

It also adds an "Expand citations" link in your toolbar!

This is only one of the many ways to activate the bot.

You can enable this gadget in the gadgets tab of your preferences panel - go to the "Editing" section of that tab, and check the box labelled "Citation expander: automatically expand and format citations using Citation bot". This gadget automatically adds missing data to citations using citation templates, and makes corrections to their formatting using the logic of Citation bot. The tool is activated on whichever page you are viewing, via one of two methods:

• If you are editing a page, a Citations button underneath the edit box will expand any citations within the edit box. This means that:
  • You can check that existing citations have been expanded to your liking, allowing you to make further changes to the article before saving, and
  • You can type a partial citation into an article, such as
    • {{cite journal |doi=10.1234/ABC12345}}
    • {{cite book |isbn=978-123-45-567-89-0}}
    • {{cite web |url=https://www.example.com}}

then have the bot expand this to a complete citation before you save the page.

• If you are viewing the page, you can click on a "Expand citations" link in the "tool" section of your left sidebar to expand and format any citations in the page.

For more information about the functions performed by Citation bot, see its user page or its user guide. To report bugs and suggestions for improvements, see its talk page.

For information about the gadget's script, see its source code. To report bugs or discuss the script, see its talk page.