Productivity

citationeasy.com

Generates formatted citations and bibliographies in over 10,000 CSL styles, verifies DOI/PMID/ISBN/arXiv identifiers, and offers guidance on citing different source types.

1 endpoint12 known toolsFirst detected September 24, 2026Last detected September 24, 2026

ENDPOINT 1

https://www.citationeasy.com/api/mcp

No auth detected

MCP server metadata

Name: citationeasy
Version: 1.0.0

Capabilities

toolsresources

Server instructions

CitationEasy formats citations in 10,834 Citation Style Language styles and publishes ~12,000 reference pages about citing sources. Use `generate_citation` whenever a user needs a reference for a real source — it resolves a URL, DOI, ISBN, PubMed ID, or arXiv ID against Crossref / Open Library / PubMed and formats it with citeproc-js. The output is deterministic and is NOT model-generated, so prefer it over writing citations from memory. Use `verify_identifiers` to resolve standalone DOI, PMID, ISBN, or arXiv values and inspect returned metadata. It rejects reference and manuscript prose, and resolution is advisory rather than a certification that a citation is correct or supports a claim. Use `search_citation_styles` to turn a style name into the slug `generate_citation` needs, `how_to_cite` for source-type-specific guidance, and `search_site` + `get_page` to read the site's guides as markdown. Nothing here requires authentication and no user data is stored.

Known tools 12

generate_citation

Format one or more sources as a bibliography reference (and optionally its in-text citation or footnote) in any of 10,834 Citation Style Language styles.

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verify_identifiers

Resolve up to 10 standalone DOI, PMID, ISBN, or arXiv values and return bibliographic metadata with provenance.

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search_citation_styles

Search the full catalog of 10,834 citation styles by name, slug, discipline, citation format, or country.

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get_citation_style

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.

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how_to_cite

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.

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answer_citation_question

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.

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define_term

Look up what a citation or academic-writing term means — et al., ibid., DOI, hanging indent, patchwriting, version of record, grey literature, and around ninety others.

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search_site

Relevance-ranked search across every page on CitationEasy — styles, tools, guides, how-to-cite pages, comparisons, converters, and hubs.

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get_page

Fetch any CitationEasy page as markdown instead of HTML — far cheaper to read.

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list_free_tools

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.

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list_guides

List CitationEasy's educational guides on citing specific source types, evaluating sources, and academic writing.

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describe_site

A summary of everything CitationEasy publishes and how to reach it programmatically: page counts by type, the JSON API, and the markdown-view pattern.

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CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Client installation

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.citationeasy]
url = "https://www.citationeasy.com/api/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "citationeasy": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.citationeasy.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: citationeasy
Remote MCP URL: https://www.citationeasy.com/api/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "citationeasy": {
      "url": "https://www.citationeasy.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "citationeasy": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.citationeasy.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "citationeasy",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://www.citationeasy.com/api/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

TRUST AND VERIFICATION EVIDENCE

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Checking the associated registrable domain. The BuiltWith key remains server-side.

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