Paste the link or ID on the front of a paper — a DOI (the doi.org link), PMID (PubMed ID), PMCID (PubMed Central ID), arXiv ID, ADS bibcode (NASA astrophysics), ISBN, ISSN, or eISSN — and get a formatted citation in seconds.
Vancouver, APA, AMA, IEEE, CSE, Chicago, Harvard, or any of 10,000+ CSL (Citation Style Language) styles. Export to BibTeX, RIS, EndNote, CSL JSON, and more — ready to copy or drop straight into Zotero, EndNote, or Mendeley.
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Drop in a DOI, PMID, PMCID, arXiv ID, ADS bibcode, ISBN, ISSN, or a link to a paper.
Vancouver, APA, AMA, IEEE, CSE, or any of 10,000+ CSL styles.
Copy the formatted citation, or export to BibTeX, RIS, EndNote, or CSL JSON for Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote, and more.
10,000+ citation styles · 9 export formats · 8 identifier types
Scholar Sidekick is also a public REST API and an open-source MCP (Model Context Protocol) server. Build it into your reference manager, your editorial pipeline, or your AI agent — no key required for light use.
curl -X POST \
https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/format \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"text":"10.1038/nphys1170","style":"vancouver"}'API docs · OpenAPI spec · Postman collection · MCP server
MCP lets Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor call Scholar Sidekick directly.
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