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EuropePMC Get References

Get references (bibliography) for an article from Europe PMC. References are articles cited by the specified article. Requires a source (e.g., 'MED' for PubMed, 'PMC' for PMC) and article ID. Use EuropePMC_search_articles to find article IDs first.

Livelast probed 2026-04-30 23:07Z· 101msCortexa

Status

The most recent probe succeeded. Safe to call from the agent today.

Last probed: 1d ago
Last success: 1d ago
Last latency: 101ms

Schema

JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.

{
  "properties": {
    "article_id": {
      "description": "Article ID from the source database (e.g., PMID for MED source)",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "page": {
      "default": 1,
      "description": "Page number for pagination (default: 1)",
      "minimum": 1,
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "page_size": {
      "default": 25,
      "description": "Number of references to retrieve (default: 25, max: 1000)",
      "maximum": 1000,
      "minimum": 1,
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "source": {
      "default": "MED",
      "description": "Source database (e.g., 'MED' for PubMed, 'PMC' for PMC). Usually 'MED' for most articles.",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "article_id"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

Default EuropePMC Get References call

public-safeinput

{
  "article_id": "",
  "page": 1,
  "page_size": 1
}

Expected response keys: success

Anonymous-safe example. Rate-limited; no sign-in required.

Identifiers

Catalog ID: tu_EuropePMC_get_references
Tool name: EuropePMC_get_references
Added: 2026-04-30 22:47Z
Tags: tooluniverse

Schema

JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.

{ "properties": { "article_id": { "description": "Article ID from the source database (e.g., PMID for MED source)", "type": "string" }, "page": { "default": 1, "description": "Page number for pagination (default: 1)", "minimum": 1, "type": "integer" }, "page_size": { "default": 25, "description": "Number of references to retrieve (default: 25, max: 1000)", "maximum": 1000, "minimum": 1, "type": "integer" }, "source": { "default": "MED", "description": "Source database (e.g., 'MED' for PubMed, 'PMC' for PMC). Usually 'MED' for most articles.", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "article_id" ], "type": "object" }