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Academic Citation Lookup API
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Academic Citation Lookup API is a paid API for AI agents from api.borisinc.com, paid per call via x402, $0.004/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).
Looks up academic paper metadata and returns formatted citations (APA, BibTeX) for a given publication query
Price / call$0.004
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
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Output
Returns a JSON object with the paper title, publication year, journal name, a boolean indicating whether the paper was found, and pre-formatted citations in both APA and BibTeX styles.
Example use cases
Bibliography for a literature review
“I'm writing a lit review and need properly formatted APA and BibTeX citations for the paper 'Attention is All You Need' — can you look that up for me?”
Verify publication details of a study
“Can you check whether a paper called 'Generative Adversarial Nets' exists in the academic record and tell me the journal it was published in and the year?”
Auto-cite sources in a research document
“I need to cite 'ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge' in my paper — can you pull the full citation details including BibTeX so I can drop it straight into my reference manager?”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://api.borisinc.com/paid/util/citationWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need quick, pay-per-call citation lookups without setting up an account or API key — ideal for agents that occasionally need to format academic references on demand. Prefer it over Crossref or Semantic Scholar integrations when you want a simple, low-friction x402 micropayment model with no subscription overhead.
Side effects
- Paper not found returns found: false with no citation data
- Ambiguous or misspelled title may return incorrect paper metadata
- Paywalled or very recent publications may not be indexed
- Network timeout if upstream academic database is slow
- Malformed query returns HTTP 4xx error
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| inputrequired | object | |
| output | object |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"year": 2015,
"found": true,
"title": "Deep learning",
"journal": "Nature",
"citations": {
"apa": "LeCun, Y., ...",
"bibtex": "@article{...}"
}
}
}Tags
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