{"name":"citationeasy","title":"CitationEasy","version":"1.0.0","description":"Citation formatting in 10,832 CSL styles, plus CitationEasy's reference catalog.","servers":[{"name":"citationeasy","transport":"streamable-http","url":"https://www.citationeasy.com/api/mcp","authentication":"none","protocolVersions":["2025-06-18","2025-03-26","2024-11-05"]}],"tools":[{"name":"generate_citation","description":"Format one or more sources as a bibliography reference (and optionally its in-text citation or footnote) in any of 10,832 Citation Style Language styles. Accepts a URL, DOI, ISBN, PubMed ID, arXiv ID, BibTeX/RIS/CSL-JSON text, or a CSL-JSON entry object. Metadata is fetched from Crossref, Open Library, or PubMed and formatted with citeproc-js — deterministic, never model-generated. Use this instead of writing citations by hand."},{"name":"search_citation_styles","description":"Search the full catalog of 10,832 citation styles by name, slug, discipline, citation format, or country. Use it to turn a human phrase like 'the style Nature uses' or 'a numeric style for engineering' into the slug generate_citation needs."},{"name":"get_citation_style","description":"Everything CitationEasy knows about one style: its citation-format class, the disciplines its CSL definition declares, its region, and real formatted examples (journal article, book, website, in-text) produced by that style's own definition. Use it to show a user what a style looks like before formatting their sources."},{"name":"how_to_cite","description":"Guidance for citing a particular kind of source (website, book, journal article, YouTube video, podcast, ChatGPT conversation, and more) in a particular style: which fields to collect, a real example in that style, and the guide page to read."},{"name":"answer_citation_question","description":"Look up CitationEasy's vetted answers to common citation questions — what to cite, citing a source with no author or no date, et al., hanging indents, citing AI tools, secondary citations, what counts as plagiarism. Use this for 'how does citing work' questions rather than answering from memory; use generate_citation when the user has an actual source."},{"name":"search_site","description":"Relevance-ranked search across every page on CitationEasy — styles, tools, guides, how-to-cite pages, comparisons, converters, and hubs. Use it when you do not know which page answers a citation question."},{"name":"get_page","description":"Fetch any CitationEasy page as markdown instead of HTML — far cheaper to read. Pass the site path (e.g. '/citation-style/apa', '/tools/word-counter', '/apa'). Find paths with search_site."},{"name":"list_free_tools","description":"List the free browser tools on CitationEasy — citation generators for every source type, word and character counters, readability scoring, formatters, and text converters — optionally filtered by category or keyword."},{"name":"list_guides","description":"List CitationEasy's educational guides on citing specific source types, evaluating sources, and academic writing. Returns the guide URL and its markdown view so you can read one next."},{"name":"describe_site","description":"A summary of everything CitationEasy publishes and how to reach it programmatically: page counts by type, the JSON API, and the markdown-view pattern. Call this first if you are unsure what this server can do."}],"documentation":"https://www.citationeasy.com/ai"}