INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

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.

citationeasy.comnone authenticationAvailability not checked

LIVE ENDPOINT

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

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for define_term and invoke it with your own arguments.

Indexed input schema

{}

Risk classification

Inferred read-only · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

No write-capable action terms were found; this is not proof that invocation has no side effects.

Parent server

citationeasy.com

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.

Related tools

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.
verify_identifiers — Resolve up to 10 standalone DOI, PMID, ISBN, or arXiv values and return bibliographic metadata with provenance.
search_citation_styles — Search the full catalog of 10,834 citation styles by name, slug, discipline, citation format, or country.
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.
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.
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.
search_site — Relevance-ranked search across every page on CitationEasy — styles, tools, guides, how-to-cite pages, comparisons, converters, and hubs.
get_page — Fetch any CitationEasy page as markdown instead of HTML — far cheaper to read.