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During the writing phase of an academic paper, common tasks include downloading PDFs of publications and getting their references into your bibliography. However, I am not a fan of navigating the slow, bloated, tracker-filled, and distracting webpages of academic journals and publication aggregators. For some reason, many publishers decided that clicking the "Download PDF" link should redirect the user to an unusable in-browser PDF viewer instead of providing the PDF file directly. While the majority of journal webpages provide formatted citations for their publications, these are inconsistent in style and content.