Deterministic citation formatter — APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago 17 author-date, BibTeX
Deterministic citation formatter — APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago 17 author-date, BibTeX. From structured fields, returns the reference entry (markdown/html/plain) + the in-text citation, reproducing published style-manual examples exactly. For full author lists use POST. Every answer signed. Free sample, no payment required: GET /play/cite
1000 (raw units)
price
1
calls / 30d
1
unique payers
2026-08-20
updated
Provider
touchstone.locomot.io · discovered, not yet claimed by its owner
Payment (x402 accepts[])
[
{
"scheme": "exact",
"network": "eip155:8453",
"payTo": "0xa3091005a76b1480F1897a9D0C2e1c55B7767674",
"asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
"amount": "1000",
"maxTimeoutSeconds": 300
}
]Output schema
{
"bazaar": {
"info": {
"input": {
"method": "GET",
"queryParams": {
"authors": "Einstein, Albert",
"container": "Annalen der Physik",
"pages": "891-921",
"style": "apa",
"title": "On the electrodynamics of moving bodies",
"type": "article",
"volume": "17",
"year": "1905"
},
"type": "http"
}
},
"schema": {
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"method": {
"enum": [
"GET",
"HEAD",
"DELETE"
],
"type": "string"
},
"queryParams": {
"properties": {
"authors": {
"description": "'Family, Given; Family2, Given2'",
"type": "string"
},
"container": {
"description": "journal/site name",
"type": "string"
},
"doi": {
"type": "string"
},
"issue": {
"type": "string"
},
"pages": {
"type": "string"
},
"place": {
"type": "string"
},
"publisher": {
"type": "string"
},
"style": {
"description": "apa | mla | chicago | bibtex",
"type": "string"
},
"title": {
"description": "work title (verbatim case)",
"type": "string"
},
"type": {
"description": "article | book | chapter | web",
"type": "string"
},
"url": {
"type": "string"
},
"volume": {
"type": "string"
},
"year": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"style",
"title"
],
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"intext": {
"type": "string"
},
"reference": {
"type": "object"
},
"source_type": {
"type": "string"
},
"style": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
"input"
],
"type": "object"
}
}
}Use it
curl
curl "https://touchstone.locomot.io/cite" # -> 402 Payment Required, accepts[] lists how to pay # retry with a PAYMENT-SIGNATURE (or PAYMENT header) once paid
JavaScript
const res = await fetch("https://touchstone.locomot.io/cite");
if (res.status === 402) {
const { accepts } = await res.json();
// pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment header
}Python
import httpx
res = httpx.get("https://touchstone.locomot.io/cite")
if res.status_code == 402:
accepts = res.json()["accepts"]
# pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment headerMachine-readable
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