ISBN

Definition

The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a unique numerical book identifier. Today there exist two versions, a 10-digit and a 13 digit one.

See Wikipedia's [ISBN] article for details.

See also: Digital object identifier (DOI)

Tools

There doesn't seem to exist a simple end-user tool that let's you scan the ISBN barcode of your books and then produces a bibliography :(

• Mediawikis (e.g. this wiki) include a kind of ISBN resolver (see How to edit a page).

• BookSources is a Wikipedia service to search for multiple sources for a book given the ISBN number.

• Ottobib will produce a reference from a ISBN (you can choose from several formats).