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APA, MLA and Chicago citations from a DOI, an ISBN or typed details. No account.
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APA, MLA and Chicago citations from a DOI, an ISBN or typed details. No account.
Security Report
This is a small citation formatter that only sends DOI and ISBN lookups to Crossref and Open Library, with no credentials, no shell execution, and no file access in the reviewed code. The main concerns are minor: the DOI is interpolated into the request path with limited encoding, and the base URLs can be overridden by environment variables. The src/server.ts and src/index.ts files were not provided, so the env var handling and server wiring could not be fully verified. Supply chain analysis found 3 known vulnerabilities in dependencies (2 critical, 0 high severity). Package verification found 1 issue.
7 files analyzed · 8 issues found
Security scores are indicators to help you make informed decisions, not guarantees. Always review permissions before connecting any MCP server.
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How to Install
Add this to your MCP configuration file:
{
"mcpServers": {
"io-github-anonymousonyx22-student-citations-mcp": {
"args": [
"-y",
"student-citations-mcp"
],
"command": "npx"
}
}
}Documentation
View on GitHubFrom the project's GitHub README.
Citations MCP
Paste a DOI or an ISBN and get a formatted citation back in APA 7, MLA 9 or Chicago author-date. You can also type the details yourself, and get the matching in-text citation. Formatting is done by tested code, so the punctuation is the same every time.
This is a free, open source MCP server. It works with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code Copilot and any other app that supports MCP. Lookups go to the free public Crossref and Open Library services and nothing else. There is no account or key, and nothing is stored.
Free forever. No account and no subscription.
Quick start
Add this to your AI app's MCP config. For Claude Desktop that is claude_desktop_config.json.
{
"mcpServers": {
"citations": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "student-citations-mcp"]
}
}
}
Restart your AI app, then try one of the questions below. You need Node.js 20 or newer.
For Claude Code, run claude mcp add citations -- npx -y student-citations-mcp.
What you can ask
- "Cite 10.1038/nature14539 in APA."
- "Make an MLA citation for ISBN 9780262033848."
- "Format this as Chicago: Smith and Jones, 2020, Learning to Learn, Journal of Study Skills, volume 4, issue 2, pages 11 to 25."
- "What's the in-text citation for a quote on page 14 of that paper?"
Tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
format_citation | Format a journal article, book or website from details you provide, in APA 7, MLA 9 or Chicago author-date |
cite_from_doi | Look up a DOI on Crossref and format the citation |
cite_from_isbn | Look up an ISBN on Open Library and format the citation |
in_text_citation | The in-text citation that matches a source, with an optional page number |
Good to know
- Always check the result against your course's style guide or your instructor's rules. Styles have many special cases this tool does not cover, such as editors, translators and edition rules.
- Titles are used as the source gives them. APA wants sentence case for article titles, so fix capitals if your style needs it.
- Optional environment variables,
CROSSREF_EMAILputs your address in lookups so Crossref can reach you about heavy use, andCROSSREF_BASE_URLandOPENLIBRARY_BASE_URLpoint to other servers for testing.
Development
npm install
npm run build
npm test
Tests run against fake Crossref and Open Library servers, so they need no network.
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License
MIT
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