OSF Citations API
The Citations API from OSF — 2 operation(s) for citations.
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OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: OSF APIv2 Documentation Citations API
description: This is the official documentation for the OSF (Open Science Framework) API v2.
version: '2.0'
termsOfService: https://osf.io/terms_of_use/
contact:
name: OSF Support Team
email: support@osf.io
url: https://help.osf.io/
license:
name: Apache 2.0
url: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
x-logo:
url: https://cdn.cos.io/media/images/cos_center_logo_small.original.png
backgroundColor: transparent
servers:
- url: https://api.test.osf.io/v2
tags:
- name: Citations
paths:
/citations/styles/:
get:
summary: List all citation styles
description: 'A paginated list of all standard citation styles available for rendering citations.
#### Returns
Returns a JSON object containing `data` and `links` keys.
The `data` key contains an array of 10 citation styles. Each resource in the array is a separate citation syle and contains the full representation of the citation style object.
The `links` key contains a dictionary of links that can be used for pagination.
This request should never return an error.
#### Filtering
You can optionally request that the response only include citation styles that match your filters by utilizing the `filter` query parameter, e.g. https://api.osf.io/v2/citations/styles/?filter[title]=open.
Citation styles may be filtered by their `id`, `title`, `short-title`, and `summary`.
#### Errors
This request should never return an error.'
tags:
- Citations
operationId: citations_styles_list
x-response-schema: Citation Style
responses:
'200':
description: OK
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: array
items:
type: object
title: Citation Style
required:
- id
- type
- attributes
properties:
id:
type: string
readOnly: true
description: The identifier of the citation style, e.g. APA.
type:
type: string
readOnly: true
description: The type identifier of the citation style entity (`citation-styles`).
attributes:
type: object
title: Attributes
readOnly: true
required:
- date_parsed
- title
description: The properties of the citation style entity.
properties:
date_parsed:
type: string
format: date-time
readOnly: true
description: The time at which the citation style was first parsed, as an iso8601 formatted timestamp.
short_title:
type: string
readOnly: true
description: The short name for the citation style.
summary:
type: string
readOnly: true
description: The summary of the citation style.
title:
type: string
readOnly: true
description: The official name of the citation style.
links:
type: object
title: Links
readOnly: true
description: URLs to alternative representations of the citation style entity.
example:
data:
- links: {}
attributes:
date_parsed: '2015-02-16T04:16:25.732000'
summary: null
short_title: AMR
title: Academy of Management Review
type: citation-styles
id: academy-of-management-review
links:
first: null
last: https://api.osf.io/v2/citations/styles/?page=115
prev: null
next: https://api.osf.io/v2/citations/styles/?page=2
meta:
total: 1149
per_page: 10
/citations/styles/{style_id}/:
get:
summary: Retrieve a citation style
description: 'Retrieves the details of a citation style.
#### Returns
Returns a JSON object with a `data` key containing the representation of the requested citation style, if the request is successful.
#### Errors
If the request is unsuccessful, an `errors` key containing information about the failure will be returned. Refer to the list of error codes to understand why this request may have failed.'
parameters:
- description: The unique identifier of the citation style.
required: true
name: style_id
in: path
schema:
type: string
tags:
- Citations
operationId: citations_styles_read
x-response-schema: Citation Style
responses:
'200':
description: OK
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
title: Citation Style
required:
- id
- type
- attributes
properties:
id:
type: string
readOnly: true
description: The identifier of the citation style, e.g. APA.
type:
type: string
readOnly: true
description: The type identifier of the citation style entity (`citation-styles`).
attributes:
type: object
title: Attributes
readOnly: true
required:
- date_parsed
- title
description: The properties of the citation style entity.
properties:
date_parsed:
type: string
format: date-time
readOnly: true
description: The time at which the citation style was first parsed, as an iso8601 formatted timestamp.
short_title:
type: string
readOnly: true
description: The short name for the citation style.
summary:
type: string
readOnly: true
description: The summary of the citation style.
title:
type: string
readOnly: true
description: The official name of the citation style.
links:
type: object
title: Links
readOnly: true
description: URLs to alternative representations of the citation style entity.
example:
data:
links: {}
attributes:
date_parsed: '2015-02-16T04:16:26.233000'
summary: null
short_title: APA
title: American Psychological Association 6th edition
type: citation-styles
id: apa
x-tagGroups:
- name: Welcome
tags:
- Introduction
- General Usage
- Authentication
- Pagination
- Versioning
- Filtering
- Sparse Fieldsets
- Embedding
- Request Formatting
- Errors & Error Codes
- Entities & Entity Collections
- name: API Reference
tags:
- Actions
- Addons
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- Base
- CEDAR Metadata
- Citations
- Comments
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