# `io.github.theluckystrike/citation-generator` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.theluckystrike/citation-generator
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.theluckystrike/citation-generator
- Version: 1.0.0 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.theluckystrike (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-22T06:19:38.622Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Zovo Citation Generator
DOIs and ISBNs to APA & MLA
```

Scanned 2026-10-22T06:20:20.767Z over streamable-http.

**2 tools: 2 change things.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 2 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 0 | allow |

## Findings

- **warn** Annotations that disagree with the tool in `generate_citations` ([annotation-conflict](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#annotation-conflict))

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "generate_citations" read-only (readOnlyHint: true), and its own name, description or input give the class "write".

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"destructiveHint":false,"idempotentHint":true,"openWorldHint":true}; The name "generate_citations" says "generate": a word for a change.
```


## Changes things (2)

Creates or changes something that can be changed back. Claude Code: ask.

### `format_manual_citation`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
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_citations`

- The name "generate_citations" says "generate": a word for a change.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
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.
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `citation-generator`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__citation-generator__generate_citations",
      "mcp__citation-generator__format_manual_citation"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```