This is a Node API to generate citations automatically. Right now it only supports APA 7 citations.
Support for MLA and BibTex citations can be added by creating more classes and making them child classes of
Citation class.
We have utilized an Object-Oriented Architecture to separate everything and minimize coupling and maximize cohesion for a great design.
Here is the Unified Modelling Language (UML) diagram for the models:
classDiagram
Citation <|-- Apa
Citation o-- Source
Source <|-- Article
Citation o-- IDetails
Citation : getCitation()
Citation : retreiveData()
Citation : source
Citation : details
Apa : getCitation()
Apa : version
Source o-- IDetails
Source : extractData()
Source : details
Source : url
Article *-- Metascraper
Article : _metascraper
Article : metadata
Article : fetchPage()
Article : getContent()
Article : assignMetadata()
Article : extractData()
IDetails : author
IDetails : title
IDetails : publisher
IDetails : yearOfPublication
IDetails : pageNumbers
This API uses metascraper to extract the data about websites. Credits: Metascraper
Right now a POST request can be sent to the endpoint /api/citation/article.
The body is as follows:
{
"url": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-021-10650-9"
}The output will be provided as follows:
{
"citation": "Alaattin Parlakkiliç (2021-07-12T00:00:00.000Z), Evaluating the effects of responsive design on the usability of academic websites in the pandemic - Education and Information Technologies, SpringerLink, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-021-10650-9"
}It's not perfect right now, and might return null values for some stuff so it needs to be fixed. Please contribute to this repository to improve the code.