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How to Cite ApiLinker

If you use ApiLinker in your research, please cite it using the information below.

Citation Formats

BibTeX

@software{apilinker2025,
  author = {Kartas, Kyriakos},
  title = {ApiLinker: A Universal Bridge for REST API Integrations},
  version = {0.5.3},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://github.com/kkartas/apilinker},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.XXXXXXX}
}

APA

Kartas, K. (2025). ApiLinker: A Universal Bridge for REST API Integrations (Version 0.5.3) [Computer software]. https://github.com/kkartas/apilinker

IEEE

K. Kartas, "ApiLinker: A Universal Bridge for REST API Integrations," version 0.5.3, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://github.com/kkartas/apilinker

Chicago

Kartas, Kyriakos. 2025. ApiLinker: A Universal Bridge for REST API Integrations. Version 0.5.3. https://github.com/kkartas/apilinker.

Citation File

A machine-readable citation file is available at the root of the repository: CITATION.cff

This file can be used with tools like Zotero, Mendeley, and GitHub's "Cite this repository" feature.

Research Use Cases

If you use ApiLinker in published research, we'd love to hear about it! Please consider:

  1. Opening an issue on GitHub to share your paper
  2. Adding your publication to our list of scientific uses
  3. Citing specific features you used (e.g., research connectors, benchmarking framework)

Version-Specific Citations

When citing ApiLinker, please include the version number to ensure reproducibility. You can find the version in:

import apilinker
print(apilinker.__version__)

Acknowledgments

If you use ApiLinker's research connectors (NCBI, arXiv, PubChem, etc.), please also cite the respective API providers according to their guidelines:

License

ApiLinker is released under the MIT License.