Anystyle API

gem install anystyle

import requests

references = """Vaswani, A., Shazeer, N., Parmar, N., Uszkoreit, J., Jones, L., Gomez, A. N., ... & Polosukhin, I. (2017). Attention is all you need. Advances in neural information processing systems, 30.
Devlin, J., Chang, M. W., Lee, K., & Toutanova, K. (2019). BERT: Pre-training of deep bidirectional transformers for language understanding. NAACL-HLT, 4171-4186.
Brown, T. B., Mann, B., Ryder, N., Subbiah, M., et al. (2020). Language models are few-shot learners. NeurIPS 33, 1877-1901."""

resp = requests.post(
    "https://anystyle.io/parse",
    headers={"Content-Type": "text/plain"},
    data=references
)

for ref in resp.json():
    authors = ", ".join(
        f"{a.get('family', '')} {a.get('given', '')}" for a in ref.get("author", [])
    )
    title = ref.get("title", [""])[0]
    year = ref.get("date", [""])[0]
    journal = ref.get("container-title", [""])[0]
    print(f"{authors} ({year}). {title}. {journal}")

import requests

def parse_references(raw_text):
    """Parse raw citation text into structured records."""
    resp = requests.post(
        "https://anystyle.io/parse",
        headers={"Content-Type": "text/plain"},
        data=raw_text
    )
    if resp.status_code == 200:
        return resp.json()
    return []

# Process references from multiple source documents
documents = {
    "paper_A": "Smith, J. (2020). Title A. Journal X, 1, 1-10.\nDoe, J. (2019). Title B. Journal Y, 2, 20-30.",
    "paper_B": "Jones, K. (2021). Title C. Conference Z, 100-110.\nSmith, J. (2020). Title A. Journal X, 1, 1-10."
}

citation_graph = {}
for doc_id, refs in documents.items():
    parsed = parse_references(refs)
    citation_graph[doc_id] = parsed
    print(f"{doc_id}: parsed {len(parsed)} references")

import requests

citation = "Goodfellow, I., Bengio, Y., & Courville, A. (2016). Deep Learning. MIT Press."

resp = requests.post(
    "https://anystyle.io/parse",
    headers={"Content-Type": "text/plain"},
    data=citation
)

parsed = resp.json()[0]
# Build a BibTeX entry from parsed fields
authors = " and ".join(
    f"{a.get('family', '')}, {a.get('given', '')}" for a in parsed.get("author", [])
)
bib_key = parsed.get("author", [{}])[0].get("family", "unknown").lower() + parsed.get("date", ["0000"])[0]

print(f"@book{{{bib_key},")
print(f"  author = {{{authors}}},")
print(f"  title = {{{parsed.get('title', [''])[0]}}},")
print(f"  year = {{{parsed.get('date', [''])[0]}}},")
print(f"  publisher = {{{parsed.get('publisher', [''])[0] if parsed.get('publisher') else 'Unknown'}}}")
print("}")

# Install the gem
gem install anystyle

# Parse references from command line
anystyle parse "Smith, J. (2020). My Paper. Journal, 1, 1-10."

# Parse references from a text file
anystyle parse references.txt --format json > parsed.json

# Parse references directly from a PDF
anystyle find document.pdf --format json > extracted_refs.json