Zovo Citation Generator MCP Server

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Zovo Citation Generator is answering right now. Last checked 12 min ago. It exposes 2 tools.

DOIs and ISBNs to APA & MLA

Uptime history 67 hours of history

67 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

203 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Zovo Citation Generator every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 12 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add citation-generator --transport http https://citation-generator.zovo.one/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://citation-generator.zovo.one/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.citation-generator]
url = "https://citation-generator.zovo.one/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "citation-generator": {
      "url": "https://citation-generator.zovo.one/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "citation-generator": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://citation-generator.zovo.one/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 2

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

format

format_manual_citation

Use this when the user wants a citation generator, a reference generator apa or a works cited generator for a source they type in that has no DOI or ISBN: a book, a journal article, a chapter or a web page. Give the record fields and the style, and get the formatted citation plus BibTeX, RIS and text reference-list files. Use it for a cite this for me request about an old book or a class reading. Do not use it when the user has a DOI or an ISBN, or for legal cases, patents or datasets.

generate

generate_citations

Use this when the user wants to cite this for me, build a works cited list or a reference generator: give a DOI, an ISBN or a list of them and get APA 7, MLA 9 or Chicago citations plus BibTeX and RIS files. Use it for a doi to citation or isbn to citation, an mla citation generator or a chicago citation generator, or to make bibtex from doi. The metadata is looked up live on Crossref and Open Library. A record those services do not have returns status not_found for that item and the other items still work. Do not use for a source that has no DOI or ISBN, or to cite legal cases, patents or datasets; use format_manual_citation for a manual source.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://citation-generator.zovo.one/mcp	streamable-http	answering	316 ms	12 min ago

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Zovo Citation Generator — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Zovo Citation Generator do?

It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: format_manual_citation, generate_citations. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Zovo Citation Generator working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 203 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Zovo Citation Generator?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Zovo Citation Generator need an API key?

No. Zovo Citation Generator completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 2 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Zovo Citation Generator?

It answers our handshake in 203 ms on average, which is faster than 72% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.