CiteMe

Search papers, format citations in 60 styles, and verify bibliographies against scholarly sources.

Should I use this

Quality & Safety

A
Description quality
100%
Schema completeness
99%
Naming quality
100%
Poisoning risk
100%
Permission match
100%
Protocol compliance
100%

Based on automated analysis of tool definitions and protocol compliance.

Context Cost

~1,242Tokens (tool definitions)
~3.3 KBTypical response size
Moderate attention impact (0.97% of 128k context)

This is the approximate number of tokens consumed each time the server's tools are loaded into a model's context. Higher counts reduce the attention available for other tasks.

Install

One-Click Install

Add this to your `claude_desktop_config.json` file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "citeme": {
      "url": "https://citeme.app/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Remote endpoints

https://citeme.app/api/mcpstreamable-http

What it can do

Tool inventory

Tools (3)

🟢 Read-only🟡 Write🔴 Delete⚪ Unknown
🟡search_citations(query, style, limit, source_type)

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

{
  "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"
  ],
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
}
🟢format_citation(title, authors, year, style, doi, ...)

Format citation data (title, authors, year, etc.) into a specific citation style. The formatted result may be stored in an operational cache; the tool does not publish content or modify a user account.

Input Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "title": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "maxLength": 500,
      "description": "Paper/book title"
    },
    "authors": {
      "minItems": 1,
      "maxItems": 50,
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string",
        "maxLength": 200
      },
      "description": "Author names (e.g., [\"John Smith\", \"Jane Doe\"])"
    },
    "year": {
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "type": "number"
        },
        {
          "type": "null"
        }
      ],
      "description": "Publication year"
    },
    "style": {
      "default": "apa",
      "description": "Citation style",
      "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"
      ]
    },
    "doi": {
      "description": "DOI identifier",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "venue": {
      "description": "Journal or venue name",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "volume": {
      "description": "Volume number",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "page": {
      "description": "Page range (e.g., \"123-456\")",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "publisher": {
      "description": "Publisher name",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "url": {
      "description": "URL of the source",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "title",
    "authors",
    "year"
  ],
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
}
🟢check_references(text)

Verify a user-provided bibliography against scholarly sources and return match status, identifiers, and citation issues. Results may be cached for up to six hours and usage may be logged; the bibliography is not published or added to an account.

Input Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "text": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "maxLength": 50000,
      "description": "Raw bibliography text (one reference per line, or a full references section)"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "text"
  ],
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
}

Recommended Prompts

search_research
Search for information about [topic] using CiteMe
Expected tools: search_citations
find_specific
Find [specific item] using CiteMe
Expected tools: search_citations

Community

Rate this Server

Evidence

Recent observations

verifiedversion not recorded3 tools
verifiedversion not recorded3 tools