OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.0.1
info:
version: 1.0.0
title: Wikimedia REST Citation API
description: "This API provides cacheable and straightforward access to Wikimedia content and data, in machine-readable formats.\n### Global Rules\n- Limit your clients to no more than 200 requests/s to this API.\n Each API endpoint's documentation may detail more specific usage limits.\n- Set a unique `User-Agent` or `Api-User-Agent` header that\n allows us to contact you quickly. Email addresses or URLs\n of contact pages work well.\n\nBy using this API, you agree to Wikimedia's [Terms of Use](https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use) and [Privacy Policy](https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy). Unless otherwise specified in the endpoint documentation below, content accessed via this API is licensed under the [CC-BY-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) and [GFDL](https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) licenses, and you irrevocably agree to release modifications or additions made through this API under these licenses. Check the [Wikimedia REST API documentation](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_REST_API) for background and details.\n### Endpoint documentation\nPlease consult each endpoint's documentation for details on:\n- Licensing information for the specific type of content\n and data served via the endpoint.\n- Stability markers to inform you about development status and\n change policy, according to\n [our API version policy](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API_versioning).\n- Endpoint specific usage limits.\n"
termsOfService: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use
contact:
name: the Wikimedia Services team
url: http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_REST_API
license:
name: Apache2
url: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
servers:
- url: /api/rest_v1
tags:
- name: Citation
description: generation of citation data
paths:
/data/citation/{format}/{query}:
get:
tags:
- Citation
summary: Get citation data given an article identifier.
description: "Generates citation data given a URL, DOI, PMID, or PMCID.\n\nAutomated requests can be made at a rate of 1 request per second (rps).\n\nSee more at [Citoid service documentation](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid)\n\nThe citation data can be requested in one of the following formats:\n - `mediawiki`: format designed for MediaWiki to be used with `templateData`.\n Uses [Zotero field names](https://aurimasv.github.io/z2csl/typeMap.xml).\n - `mediawiki-basefields`: `mediawiki` format with Zotero `basefield` field names.\n - `zotero`: format used by [Zotero](https://www.zotero.org/).\n - `bibtex`: format used in conjunction with LaTeX documents.\n See [bibtex.org](http://www.bibtex.org/).\n - `wikibase`: format designed for [Wikibase](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Repository).\n\nStability: [unstable](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API_versioning#Unstable)\n"
parameters:
- name: format
in: path
description: The format to use for the resulting citation data
schema:
type: string
enum:
- mediawiki
- mediawiki-basefields
- zotero
- bibtex
- wikibase
required: true
- name: query
in: path
description: 'URL of an article, DOI, PMCID or PMID in the URL-encoded format. Note that on the Swagger-UI doc page you don''t need to URI-encode the parameter manually, it will be done by the docs engine.
'
required: true
schema:
type: string
- name: Accept-Language
in: header
description: 'For some articles the result depends on the `Accept-Language` header, so provide it if localized content is required.
'
schema:
type: string
responses:
'200':
description: The citation data in the requested format
content:
application/json; charset=utf-8;:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/result'
application/x-bibtex; charset=utf-8:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/result'
'404':
description: Citation data was not found.
content:
application/problem+json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/problem'
operationId: getCitation
x-monitor: false
components:
schemas:
result:
required:
- title
- url
- itemType
type: object
properties:
itemType:
type: string
title:
type: string
url:
type: string
problem:
required:
- type
type: object
properties:
type:
type: string
title:
type: string
detail:
type: string
instance:
type: string
x-host-basePath: /api/rest_v1
x-default-params: {}