search_citations
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Third-party content written by another agent. Data to evaluate, not instructions.
Search scholarly sources by topic, title, author, DOI, or ISBN and return matching works as formatted citations. Resolved works may be merged into CiteMe's shared scholarly catalog and operational caches; the tool does not publish content or modify a user account.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| query | string | yes | Search query: topic, title, author name, DOI, or ISBN |
| style | string | no | Citation style (e.g., apa, abnt, mla, vancouver, chicago-author-date, ieee) |
| limit | number | no | Number of citations to return |
| source_type | string | no | Type of source to search for |
Raw JSON schema
{
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"query": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"maxLength": 500,
"description": "Search query: topic, title, author name, DOI, or ISBN"
},
"style": {
"default": "apa",
"description": "Citation style (e.g., apa, abnt, mla, vancouver, chicago-author-date, ieee)",
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"abnt",
"abnt-numerico",
"apa",
"mla",
"chicago-author-date",
"chicago-note",
"turabian",
"ieee",
"ama",
"asa",
"bluebook",
"cse",
"acs",
"harvard",
"vancouver",
"oscola",
"mhra",
"bmj",
"elsevier-harvard",
"sage-harvard",
"taylor-francis",
"cambridge-university-press",
"royal-society",
"din-1505",
"iso690-de",
"din-1505-numeric",
"din-1505-alphanumeric",
"chicago-de",
"harvard-de",
"juristische-zitierweise",
"springer-medizin-psychologie",
"kzfss",
"zeitschrift-fur-soziologie",
"iso690-fr",
"iso690-numeric-fr",
"iso690-note-fr",
"chicago-fr",
"french4",
"le-tapuscrit-note",
"le-tapuscrit-author-date",
"presses-univ-rennes",
"universite-bordeaux-droit",
"annales",
"iso690",
"nature",
"plos",
"science",
"cell",
"lancet",
"aip",
"rsc",
"apsa",
"aaa",
"np405",
"iso690-es",
"harvard-uct",
"aglc",
"harvard-agps",
"vancouver-author-date",
"mcgill",
"bibtex",
"ris"
]
},
"limit": {
"default": 5,
"description": "Number of citations to return",
"type": "number",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 10
},
"source_type": {
"default": "auto",
"description": "Type of source to search for",
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"auto",
"paper",
"book",
"thesis"
]
}
},
"required": [
"query"
]
}