@article{LeCun2015Deep,
  doi = "10.1038/nature14539",
  title = "Deep learning",
  author = "LeCun, Yann and Bengio, Yoshua and Hinton, Geoffrey",
  journal = "Nature",
  year = 2015,
  volume = 521,
  number = 7553,
  pages = "436-444",
  publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media LLC",
  url = "https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14539",
  type = "journal-article",
}
@inproceedings{Vaswani2017Attention,
  arxiv = "1706.03762",
  title = "Attention Is All You Need",
  author = "Vaswani, Ashish and Shazeer, Noam and Parmar, Niki and Uszkoreit, Jakob and Jones, Llion and Gomez, Aidan N. and Kaiser, Lukasz and Polosukhin, Illia",
  year = 2017,
  journal = "arXiv preprint",
  url = "https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762",
}
# ... and 5 more entries ...

# Generate APA formatted citations
onecite process refs.txt --output-format apa
# → LeCun, Y., Bengio, Y., & Hinton, G. (2015). Deep learning. Nature, 521(7553), 436-444.

# Generate MLA formatted citations
onecite process refs.txt --output-format mla
# → LeCun, Yann, Yoshua Bengio, and Geoffrey Hinton. "Deep Learning." Nature 521.7553 (2015): 436-444.

For ambiguous entries, use the --interactive flag to manually select the correct match and ensure accuracy.

Command:

onecite process ambiguous.txt --interactive

Example Interaction:

Found multiple possible matches for "Deep learning Hinton":
1. Deep learning
   Authors: LeCun, Yann; Bengio, Yoshua; Hinton, Geoffrey
   Journal: Nature, 2015
   DOI: 10.1038/nature14539

2. Deep belief networks
   Authors: Hinton, Geoffrey E.
   Journal: Scholarpedia, 2009
   DOI: 10.4249/scholarpedia.5947

Please select (1-2, 0=skip): 1
✅ Selected: Deep learning

Integrate OneCite's processing power directly into your Python scripts.

from onecite import process_references

# A callback can be used for non-interactive selection (e.g., always choose the best match)
def auto_select_callback(candidates):
    return 0 # Index of the best candidate

result = process_references(
    input_content="Deep learning review\nLeCun, Bengio, Hinton\nNature 2015",
    input_type="txt",
    output_format="bibtex",
    interactive_callback=auto_select_callback
)

print(result['output_content'])

1. Installation & Testing

# Install OneCite (includes MCP server)
pip install onecite

# Test the MCP server
onecite-mcp

2. Configure Your AI Assistant

For Claude Desktop

Add the following to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": { "onecite": { "command": "onecite-mcp" } }
}

For Cursor

Add the following to .cursor/settings.json:

{
  "mcpServers": { "onecite": { "command": "onecite-mcp" } }
}

Restart your editor to enable the integration.

3. Available Functions & Examples

• cite: Generate a single citation (e.g., "Generate an APA citation for DOI: 10.1038/nature14539").
• batch_cite: Process a list of references (e.g., "Batch process these references in BibTeX format").
• search: Search academic literature by keywords (e.g., "Search for papers on machine learning").