Zovo Citation Generator
Zovo v1.0.0
DOIs and ISBNs to APA & MLA
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Description
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Turn a DOI or an ISBN into a correctly formatted citation for a student paper or a research reading list, using live registered DOI and ISBN metadata. Type a DOI (10.1038/nphys1170), a doi.org link, or an ISBN-10/ISBN-13, and Zovo Citation Generator looks the record up live: authors, title, year, journal or book, volume, issue, pages and publisher come from the registration. See the citation in APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago author-date and Chicago notes-bibliography, with the author rules for 1, 2, 3 and up to 21 or more authors, sentence case for APA titles and title case for MLA and Chicago, and italics kept in the HTML preview. A source with no DOI or ISBN goes through the manual tool: type the type, authors, title, year, container, volume, issue, pages, publisher, URL and access date, and it is formatted the same way. The result is a works cited or reference list, sorted the way the style requires (by first author family name, then year; a source with no author sorts by title). One DOI or ISBN is one citation card, and a list of up to 25 is formatted in one call. Download the list as BibTeX for your reference manager, RIS for reference software, or a plain text reference list, and copy any single citation from the widget. When a record is missing a year, an author, a journal or a publisher, the citation follows the style rule (APA shows n.d. for no year) and a warning names the missing field. Legal, patent and dataset records get a generic format with a warning. It reads the registered value and names the source and the retrieval time. Check your citations before you submit academic work.
Language: English · Automatically detected from descriptions.
Competitor profile
From the developer’s listing and package; capabilities are not independently tested. Package observed Nov 3, 2026.
Declared capabilities
- Interactive
- Read
Declared limitations
- Reading a source the user uploads is out of scope. Expected: the tool is not called; the assistant says it looks up a DOI or an ISBN and does not read the file.
- Finding a DOI for a title is out of scope (the plugin resolves identifiers, it does not search). Expected: the tool is not called with a made-up DOI; the assistant asks for the DOI or the ISBN.
- Writing academic work is out of scope. Expected: the tool formats citations only; the assistant does not write the essay.
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This plugin does not sell products or process payments.
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Skill instructions
citation-generator2.08 KB
--- name: citation-generator description: Turn a DOI or an ISBN into APA 7, MLA 9 and Chicago citations with the generate_citations tool, or format a source without a DOI or ISBN with format_manual_citation, including BibTeX, RIS and text reference-list downloads. --- # Zovo Citation Generator Use `generate_citations` when the user gives a DOI or an ISBN (or a list of them) and wants a citation, a works cited list, or to cite their sources. 1. Pass every identifier the user gave in `identifiers` (up to 25). DOIs may be a bare `10.xxxx/...`, a `doi:` value or a `https://doi.org/...` link; ISBNs may have hyphens and may be ISBN-10 or ISBN-13. 2. Pass `style` when the user names one: `apa7` (default), `mla9`, `chicago_ad` or `chicago_nb`. If the user names more than one style, call the tool once per style. 3. Pass optional `keep_capitals` (e.g. `["London", "Studies"]`) to preserve source words case-insensitively. APA uses mechanical sentence case and shows a caution note when it lowercases source capitals. The manual tool also accepts this list inside `record`. 4. Read the citation for each item straight from the result. Do not add authors, years or page numbers yourself: every field comes from Crossref or Open Library, and a missing field is reported as a warning. 5. Share the warnings, the reference-list order, and the BibTeX, RIS and text download links. The widget lets the user switch style, copy a citation, and download the files. 6. If an identifier is not in Crossref or Open Library, the item status is `not_found`; tell the user and use `format_manual_citation` only if they type the source fields. Use `format_manual_citation` when the source has no DOI or ISBN, or the user gives the fields by hand. Pass `record` with `type` (book, journal_article, web_page or chapter) and `title`, plus the authors, year, container, volume, issue, pages, publisher, URL and access date that apply. Do not read or upload files, do not search for a DOI by title, and do not cite legal cases, patents or datasets; those get a generic format with a warning. Check citations before submitting academic work.
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Release notes
Initial release: live DOI and ISBN metadata lookups, APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago author-date and Chicago notes-bibliography formatting, a manual entry for sources without a DOI or ISBN, warnings for missing fields, and BibTeX, RIS and text reference-list downloads.
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Package details
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- Package license
- Proprietary
- Package author
- Zovo
- Keywords
- See keywords
- Declared availability
- No country restrictions declaredDeclared regions; live availability may differ.
- Listing translations
- de-DE, es-ES, fr-FR, ja-JP, pl-PL, pt-BR
- Getting started skill
- ./skills/citation-generator/SKILL.md
- Commerce declaration
- Does not support commerceThis does not establish whether access is free or paid.
- Review scenarios
- 5 positive · 3 negativeScenario counts, not test results.
Declared capabilities
- Interactive
- Read
Package observed Nov 3, 2026.
Technical details
- First seen
- Oct 30, 2026 · 22:33 UTC
- Last seen
- Nov 3, 2026 · 18:00 UTC
- Collection status
- Collected
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