What you can paste, which styles/exports are supported, and how caching & limits work.
10.1038/nphys1170 or doi.org URL). Includes a “healer” for minor typos.Built-ins: Vancouver, AMA, APA, IEEE, CSE. CSL styles: Chicago, MLA, ACS, and many more coming. Output can be Text or HTML; HTML can render as footnotes.
More CSL styles will appear as we expand the gallery.
TXT, BibTeX, RIS, CSL JSON, EndNote (Refer/XML), RefWorks, MEDLINE, CSV, Zotero RDF.
Coming soon: BibLaTeX, Pandoc Markdown, CSL YAML.
Recent lookups are cached so repeats are fast. Very new records may be briefly cached as “not found.” If you suspect a fresh registration, retry after a short delay or append ?nocache=1 in the UI.
Developer note: responses include X-Scholar-Cache with BYPASS or ENABLED.
If you send many requests quickly, you may see 429 Too Many Requests. Back off per the Retry-After header.
We return X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset, and Retry-After.
Buckets differ by route (format, export, stream, etc.). See /api/health for a snapshot.
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