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Format one or more scholarly identifiers as citations in a chosen style (Vancouver, AMA, APA, IEEE, CSE, or any CSL style ID).
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Audit a whole bibliography (BibTeX, RIS, or CSL-JSON) in one call — per-entry fabrication verdict and retraction status, plus a corpus summary.
Resolve scholarly identifiers (DOI, PMID, PMCID, ISBN, arXiv, ISSN, ADS bibcode, WHO IRIS URL) into formatted citations (10,000+ CSL styles) and bibliography exports (BibTeX, RIS, EndNote, CSV…), and check retraction, open-access, and citation-fabrication status. Calls a documented REST API over plain HTTP — no install, no API key needed for the free tier.
Check whether a scholarly work is openly accessible and return the best legal free URL, license, and version (via Unpaywall).
Check whether a scholarly work has been retracted, corrected, or had an expression of concern raised (via Crossref + Retraction Watch).
Export resolved citations to a reference-manager file format (RIS, BibTeX, CSL JSON, EndNote XML, RefWorks, NBIB, Zotero RDF, CSV, or plain text).
Resolve a scholarly identifier (DOI/PMID/PMCID/ISBN/ISSN/arXiv/ADS/WHO IRIS) to structured CSL JSON metadata.
| name | format-citation |
| description | Format one or more scholarly identifiers as citations in a chosen style (Vancouver, AMA, APA, IEEE, CSE, or any CSL style ID). |
Takes a free-text block of identifiers (one per line, mixed types OK) and returns formatted citations in the requested style. Five builtins ship as plain-text formatters; any other style routes through citeproc-js with a CSL stylesheet.
text (string, required) — One identifier per line, or free text containing identifiers.style (string, optional) — Builtin: vancouver (default), ama, apa, ieee, cse. Or any CSL style ID (e.g. nature, lancet, chicago-author-date).locale (string, optional) — CSL locale, e.g. en-US, en-GB.output (string, optional) — "text" (default) or "html".footnotes (boolean, optional) — Render HTML output as footnotes.{ ok: true, items: [{ ok, formatted, _source }, ...] }. Mixed success — per-item ok flag lets the agent surface partial failures.
POST /api/format (or /api/format/stream for NDJSON streaming).formatCitation.curl -sS -X POST "https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/format" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"text":"10.1038/nphys1170\n34812345","style":"apa","output":"text"}'
exportCitation for file-format bibliographies (RIS, BibTeX, etc.)./docs.md for full API reference.