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Anonymous access is available with rate limits.\n\n## Endpoints\n\n### POST /api/format\nResolve one or more identifiers and return formatted citations.\n\nRequest body (JSON):\n- `text` (string): A single identifier or free-text string containing identifiers.\n- OR `lines` (string[]): An array of identifiers to resolve in batch.\n- `style` (string, optional): Citation style ID. Builtin styles: vancouver, ama, apa, ieee, cse. Also supports thousands of CSL styles (e.g., harvard, chicago, nature, lancet). Defaults to vancouver.\n- `output` (string, optional): \"json\" or \"text\". Defaults to json.\n\nResponse (200, JSON):\n- `citation`: Formatted citation string (HTML or plain text).\n- `styleUsed`: The style that was actually applied.\n- `items`: Array of resolved CSL-JSON bibliographic items.\n\n### POST /api/format/stream\nStreaming variant of /api/format. Returns NDJSON (one JSON object per line) via `application/x-ndjson`. Useful for large batch requests.\n\nRequest body (JSON):\n- `lines` (string[]): Array of identifiers.\n- `style` (string, optional): Citation style ID.\n\n### POST /api/export\nExport resolved citations in reference-manager-friendly formats.\n\nRequest body (JSON):\n- `text` (string) OR `items` (CSL-JSON[]): Input identifiers or pre-resolved items.\n- `format` (string, required): One of: txt, ris, bibtex, csl-json, endnote-xml, refworks, nbib, rdf, csv.\n- `style` (string, optional): Citation style ID.\n\nResponse: Plain text body in the requested format.\n\n### POST /api/format-items\nFormat pre-resolved CSL-JSON items without re-resolving identifiers.\n\nRequest body (JSON):\n- `items` (CSL-JSON[]): Array of CSL-JSON bibliographic items.\n- `style` (string, optional): Citation style ID.\n- `output` (string, optional): \"json\" or \"text\".\n\n### GET /api/csl/styles\nDiscover available CSL citation styles. Supports search and pagination via query parameters.\n\n### GET /api/health\nService liveness check. Returns `{ \"status\": \"ok\", \"time\": \"<ISO timestamp>\" }`.\n\n### POST /api/retraction-check\nCheck a single work's retraction / correction / expression-of-concern status, sourced from Crossref `updated-by` (Retraction Watch).\n\nRequest body (JSON):\n- `id` (string, required): A DOI, PMID, PMCID, arXiv ID, or ADS bibcode (non-DOI inputs are resolved to a DOI before lookup).\n\nResponse (200, JSON): the resolved DOI, the source identifier (when different), and a `result` object (or `null` when no DOI could be resolved).\n\n### POST /api/oa-check\nCheck a single work's open-access status, sourced from Unpaywall.\n\nRequest body (JSON):\n- `id` (string, required): A DOI or other identifier (resolved to a DOI before lookup).\n\nResponse (200, JSON): OA status (gold/green/hybrid/bronze/closed), the best legal landing/PDF URL, license, and version when available.\n\n### POST /api/verify\nCheck whether a *claimed* citation matches the record at its identifier — catches the dominant fabrication pattern (real DOI + invented title) that a plain lookup misses.\n\nRequest body (JSON):\n- `claimed` (object, required): a claimed citation with one identifier, e.g. `{ \"title\": \"...\", \"authors\": [{ \"family\": \"...\" }], \"year\": 2026, \"container\": \"...\", \"doi\": \"...\" }`.\n\nResponse (200, JSON): `verdict` (`matched | mismatch | ambiguous | not_found`), a `confidence` tier (`high | medium | low`), and a per-field similarity diff. Returns 200 on every produced verdict; 4xx/5xx only for protocol errors.\n\n## Export Formats\n\n- `ris` - Research Information Systems (compatible with EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley)\n- `bibtex` - BibTeX (compatible with LaTeX, Overleaf, JabRef)\n- `csl-json` - CSL-JSON (raw structured metadata)\n- `endnote-xml` - EndNote XML\n- `refworks` - RefWorks tagged format\n- `nbib` - NBIB / MEDLINE format\n- `rdf` - Bibliographic RDF\n- `csv` - Comma-separated values\n- `txt` - Formatted plain text citation\n\n## Rate Limiting\n\nThe API uses sliding-window rate limiting. Rate limit status is communicated via standard headers: `X-RateLimit-Limit`, `X-RateLimit-Remaining`, `X-RateLimit-Reset`, `Retry-After`. Plan tiers: anonymous, free, pro, ultra, mega.\n\n## Error Responses\n\nErrors return JSON: `{ \"ok\": false, \"code\": \"<ERROR_CODE>\", \"error\": \"<message>\" }`\n\nCommon codes: BAD_REQUEST (400), UNAUTHORIZED (401), RATE_LIMITED (429), MAINTENANCE (503).\n\n## OpenAPI Specification\n\nFull OpenAPI 3.1 spec: https://scholar-sidekick.com/openapi/openapi.yml\n\nAlso exposed under the canonical discovery path: https://scholar-sidekick.com/.well-known/openapi.yaml\n\n## Provenance & determinism\n\nScholar Sidekick exposes machine-readable provenance and reproducibility metadata at canonical `.well-known` paths so AI agents can verify data sources, fallback order, and output stability before integrating.\n\n- Data source manifest (resolver chain, fallback order, network safety, `transform_version`): https://scholar-sidekick.com/.well-known/sources.json\n- ChatGPT / agent plugin manifest (points at the OpenAPI spec): https://scholar-sidekick.com/.well-known/ai-plugin.json\n- OpenAPI 3.1 spec at the discovery path: https://scholar-sidekick.com/.well-known/openapi.yaml\n- API catalog (RFC 9727 linkset): https://scholar-sidekick.com/.well-known/api-catalog\n- MCP server card (SEP-1649): https://scholar-sidekick.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json (also at https://scholar-sidekick.com/.well-known/mcp)\n- Agent skills discovery index (with SHA-256 digests): https://scholar-sidekick.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json\n- Agent discovery card (skills mapped to REST + MCP, identifiers, formats, auth, links): https://scholar-sidekick.com/.well-known/agent-card.json (also at https://scholar-sidekick.com/.well-known/agent.json)\n- Machine-readable pricing: https://scholar-sidekick.com/pricing.md\n\nEvery API response includes the `x-scholar-transform-version` header. Identical inputs (identifier + style + format) at a fixed `transform_version` produce byte-identical output. The constant is bumped when normalisation, formatter, or resolver-chain changes could alter that.\n\nSelf-verification kit (copy-paste curl commands that prove the determinism, provenance, and edge-case claims): https://scholar-sidekick.com/verification (markdown: https://scholar-sidekick.com/verification.md)\n\nChangelog (transform_version / verify_version bumps, each tagged output-affecting, verdict-affecting, breaking, or non-breaking): https://scholar-sidekick.com/changelog (markdown: https://scholar-sidekick.com/changelog.md)\n\n## Documentation\n\n- [Full content (all pages)](https://scholar-sidekick.com/llms-full.txt): Single-file aggregation of all site pages\n- [API Docs](https://scholar-sidekick.com/docs.md): Endpoints, parameters, headers, caching, rate limits\n- [MCP Server Setup](https://scholar-sidekick.com/mcp.md): Install and configure the MCP server for Claude, Cursor, and others\n- [Agent Skills (skills.sh)](https://skills.sh): Install the Scholar Sidekick agent skills for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw, and other agents — `npx skills add mlava/scholar-sidekick-skills` (the zero-install `scholar-sidekick-api` REST skill plus the `scholar-sidekick-mcp` skill)\n- [Browser Extension](https://scholar-sidekick.com/extension): Free Chrome / Firefox / Edge extension. Right-click any DOI, PMID, PMCID, ISBN, arXiv ID, ADS bibcode, or scholarly URL on any web page to format it as a citation in Vancouver, APA, AMA, IEEE, CSE, or any of 10,000+ CSL styles\n- [Integrations](https://scholar-sidekick.com/integrations) ([markdown](https://scholar-sidekick.com/integrations.md)): First-party integrations that bring Scholar Sidekick's identifier-first citation formatting, retraction checks, and open-access lookup into the notes and reference workflows you already use. Currently: Obsidian (live in the community plugins store).\n- [Obsidian plugin](https://scholar-sidekick.com/integrations/obsidian) ([markdown](https://scholar-sidekick.com/integrations/obsidian.md)): Paste a DOI, PMID, ISBN, arXiv ID, ADS bibcode, or PMCID in an Obsidian note and replace it with a formatted citation. Eleven commands: format selection, replace at caret, insert via modal, per-note BibTeX / RIS export, retraction and open-access checks, single-citation verifier. Vancouver, APA, AMA, IEEE, CSE plus 10,000+ CSL styles. Free, no API key, listed in the Obsidian community plugins store.\n- [Help & Limits](https://scholar-sidekick.com/help.md): Supported identifiers, styles, exports, caching, and rate limits\n- [Scholarly Glossary](https://scholar-sidekick.com/glossary.md): Plain-language definitions of DOI, PMID, BibTeX, RIS, CSL, open access, retraction, and other terms\n- [Scholar Sidekick Explainer](https://scholar-sidekick.com/explainer.md): A moment-of-need citation formatter - what it is, what it isn't, when it's useful.\n- [Agent Guide](https://scholar-sidekick.com/AGENTS.md): Integration guide for coding agents (MCP + REST)\n- [Sitemap](https://scholar-sidekick.com/sitemap.md): Full site map for agents\n- [API Terms](https://scholar-sidekick.com/legal/api-terms): Terms of use for the API\n\n## Comparisons\n\nHonest, source-cited comparisons of Scholar Sidekick against adjacent reference managers and citation APIs. Each page sets out where the alternative wins, where Scholar Sidekick wins, and how to use both together.\n\n- [Comparisons index](https://scholar-sidekick.com/compare) ([markdown](https://scholar-sidekick.com/compare.md)): All available comparisons\n- [Best AI Citation Verifier in 2026](https://scholar-sidekick.com/compare/best-ai-citation-verifier) ([markdown](https://scholar-sidekick.com/compare/best-ai-citation-verifier.md)): Honest comparison of ten AI citation verifiers that catch fabricated DOIs and hallucinated references (Scholar Sidekick, Citely, CiteTrue, GPTZero Source Finder, Sourcely, TrueCitation, AiCitationChecker, CiteMe, SwanRef, CiteSure). Per-tool capsules, feature matrix, realistic systematic-review workflow.\n- [Scholar Sidekick vs Zotero](https://scholar-sidekick.com/compare/scholar-sidekick-vs-zotero) ([markdown](https://scholar-sidekick.com/compare/scholar-sidekick-vs-zotero.md)): Reference manager vs stateless citation API. Written by a longtime Zotero user.\n- [Scholar Sidekick vs ZoteroBib](https://scholar-sidekick.com/compare/scholar-sidekick-vs-zoterobib) ([markdown](https://scholar-sidekick.com/compare/scholar-sidekick-vs-zoterobib.md)): In-browser bibliography builder vs stateless citation API plus nine free tools. Written by a longtime ZoteroBib user.\n- [Scholar Sidekick vs Scribbr](https://scholar-sidekick.com/compare/scholar-sidekick-vs-scribbr) ([markdown](https://scholar-sidekick.com/compare/scholar-sidekick-vs-scribbr.md)): Source-accuracy vs style-accuracy. Scribbr's Knowledge Base and expert-verified style examples vs Scholar Sidekick's live Crossref / PubMed / DataCite metadata, retraction-awareness, and deterministic transform versioning.\n- [Citation MCP Servers Compared](https://scholar-sidekick.com/compare/citation-mcp-servers) ([markdown](https://scholar-sidekick.com/compare/citation-mcp-servers.md)): Honest roundup of the five citation MCP servers AI assistants currently cite: zotero-mcp, CiteAssist, citecheck, OneCite, and Scholar Sidekick MCP. Per-tool capsules, where each wins, and how to use them together.\n- [Scholar Sidekick vs EndNote](https://scholar-sidekick.com/compare/scholar-sidekick-vs-endnote) ([markdown](https://scholar-sidekick.com/compare/scholar-sidekick-vs-endnote.md)): Stateless citation API and nine free tools vs Clarivate's enterprise reference manager. Cite-While-You-Write and group libraries are EndNote's home turf; Scholar Sidekick covers free identifier-first formatting, retraction checks, and a public API EndNote does not have.\n- [Scholar Sidekick vs MyBib](https://scholar-sidekick.com/compare/scholar-sidekick-vs-mybib) ([markdown](https://scholar-sidekick.com/compare/scholar-sidekick-vs-mybib.md)): Identifier-first registry resolution vs URL-first in-browser bibliography builder. Both free, both built on citeproc-js, different optimisations: MyBib for in-browser student-essay workflow on URL inputs; Scholar Sidekick for authoritative-registry metadata, retraction checks, broader identifier coverage, and a public API.\n- [Scholar Sidekick vs Cite This For Me](https://scholar-sidekick.com/compare/scholar-sidekick-vs-citethisforme) ([markdown](https://scholar-sidekick.com/compare/scholar-sidekick-vs-citethisforme.md)): Friction-free identifier-first API vs URL-paste in-browser bibliography. Cite This For Me's free tier covers many CSL styles but goes through click-throughs, a slow style menu, and frequent plagiarism-check prompts; Word .docx export is Premium. Written from years of personal Cite This For Me use.\n\n## Example Usage\n\nResolve a DOI to a Vancouver-style citation:\n\n```\nPOST /api/format\nContent-Type: application/json\n\n{ \"text\": \"10.1056/nejmoa2033700\", \"style\": \"vancouver\", \"output\": \"text\" }\n```\n\nExport multiple identifiers as BibTeX:\n\n```\nPOST /api/export\nContent-Type: application/json\n\n{ \"lines\": [\"10.1038/nphys1170\", \"PMID: 30049270\"], \"format\": \"bibtex\" }\n```\n\n## Optional\n\n- [Privacy Policy](https://scholar-sidekick.com/legal/privacy): Data handling, minimal logs, and scrubbed telemetry\n- [Accessibility](https://scholar-sidekick.com/accessibility): WCAG compliance statement and known limitations\n- [Engineering Principles](https://scholar-sidekick.com/engineering-principles) ([markdown](https://scholar-sidekick.com/engineering-principles.md)): Design philosophy - determinism, contract stability, spec fidelity, edge-case behaviour, reproducibility via `transform_version`\n- [Verification](https://scholar-sidekick.com/verification) ([markdown](https://scholar-sidekick.com/verification.md)): Copy-paste curl commands that independently verify reproducibility, provenance headers, and edge-case behaviour against the live API\n- [Changelog](https://scholar-sidekick.com/changelog) ([markdown](https://scholar-sidekick.com/changelog.md)): Public record of `transform_version` and `verify_version` bumps, each tagged output-affecting, verdict-affecting, breaking, or non-breaking, so integrators can detect drift and re-baseline pinned output\n- [Citation integrity in the age of AI](https://scholar-sidekick.com/citation-integrity) ([markdown](https://scholar-sidekick.com/citation-integrity.md)): How LLM-driven citation fabrication works (1-in-277 biomedical papers per Topaz et al., Lancet 2026), why simple DOI checks miss the dominant pattern, and how the /api/verify endpoint catches it. Includes the three Lancet illustrative cases verbatim, the CITADEL→Scholar Sidekick methodology mapping, an inline verifier demo, and a measured 20/20 precision/recall validation set with downloadable JSON receipts.\n- [AI evaluator bias in citation-tool recommendations](https://scholar-sidekick.com/citation-integrity/ai-evaluator-bias) ([markdown](https://scholar-sidekick.com/citation-integrity/ai-evaluator-bias.md)): Observation post documenting that four major AI search engines (Perplexity, Google AI, ChatGPT, Grok), asked on the same day to recommend citation infrastructure, all omitted a verifiable identifier-first option and admitted the omission when pushed - then articulated four different framings of the same structural bias (incumbency, single-purpose categories, primitive building blocks, well-established widely-known tools). Includes verbatim admissions from all four vendors with shareable conversation links, a tool-agnostic criteria checklist for evaluating any citation tool an AI recommends, and a methodology section with the 2-vs-2 retrieval-grounding split that argues the bias is architectural to recommendation logic rather than a RAG artifact.\n- [Citation Verifier (web tool)](https://scholar-sidekick.com/tools/citation-verifier) ([markdown](https://scholar-sidekick.com/tools/citation-verifier.md)): User-facing single-citation verifier. Paste a title + identifier (DOI, PMID, PMCID, arXiv, ISBN, ISSN, ADS, WHO IRIS); see verdict (matched / mismatch / ambiguous / not_found), per-field similarity diff, candidate matches from title-search, and full provenance. Same backend as POST /api/verify and the scholar-sidekick MCP `verifyCitation` tool.\n- [DOI to BibTeX](https://scholar-sidekick.com/tools/doi-to-bibtex) ([markdown](https://scholar-sidekick.com/tools/doi-to-bibtex.md)): Single-identifier DOI/PMID/PMCID/ISBN/arXiv/ISSN/ADS/WHO IRIS to BibTeX entry. Backend: POST /api/export, format=bibtex.\n- [DOI to RIS](https://scholar-sidekick.com/tools/doi-to-ris) ([markdown](https://scholar-sidekick.com/tools/doi-to-ris.md)): Same identifier surface, RIS output for EndNote / Zotero / Mendeley / RefWorks import.\n- [DOI Lookup](https://scholar-sidekick.com/tools/doi-lookup) ([markdown](https://scholar-sidekick.com/tools/doi-lookup.md)): Resolve one identifier and inspect the structured metadata (title, authors, container, year, identifiers).\n- [PMID / PMCID / DOI Converter](https://scholar-sidekick.com/tools/pubmed-id-converter) ([markdown](https://scholar-sidekick.com/tools/pubmed-id-converter.md)): Swap between PubMed identifier types (PMID, PMCID, DOI) for the same paper.\n- [Identifier Detector](https://scholar-sidekick.com/tools/identifier-detector) ([markdown](https://scholar-sidekick.com/tools/identifier-detector.md)): Bulk extract every DOI / PMID / PMCID / arXiv / ISBN / ISSN / ADS bibcode from a text block.\n- [Identifier Validator](https://scholar-sidekick.com/tools/identifier-validator) ([markdown](https://scholar-sidekick.com/tools/identifier-validator.md)): Single-ID well-formedness and resolvability check (no metadata fetch).\n- [Citation Style Comparator](https://scholar-sidekick.com/tools/citation-style-comparator) ([markdown](https://scholar-sidekick.com/tools/citation-style-comparator.md)): Render the same paper in any of 10,000+ CSL styles side by side.\n- [Open Access Checker](https://scholar-sidekick.com/tools/open-access-checker) ([markdown](https://scholar-sidekick.com/tools/open-access-checker.md)): Unpaywall-backed check for a legal free copy of a paper. Backend: POST /api/oa-check, scholar-sidekick MCP `checkOpenAccess` tool.\n- [Retraction Checker](https://scholar-sidekick.com/tools/retraction-checker) ([markdown](https://scholar-sidekick.com/tools/retraction-checker.md)): Retraction Watch via Crossref check for retraction / correction / expression of concern. Backend: POST /api/retraction-check, scholar-sidekick MCP `checkRetraction` tool.\n- [Explainer](https://scholar-sidekick.com/explainer): How Scholar Sidekick fits into research workflows",
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