Hi Justin O'Hara, I understand that googles results may change, what confuses me is that what I see when I manually access the cite page through google scholar is not always the same as the result from SerpAPI.

As an example, if I manually retrieve results for the search term '"Singer Instruments" ROTOR' (https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Singer+Instruments%22+ROTOR&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_ylo=2000&as_yhi=) and look at result 5 (Development of a new high-throughput method for screening large yeast libraries for use in the beverage industry) I get all citation options (see first screenshot). However if I use the SerpAPI Google Scholar Cite engine I only get MLA, APA and ISO 690 (https://serpapi.com/searches/0780a94de5b191a0/610a67e2f55d77eed03b96cf.json).

It gets odder though because if I click the link returned from "google_scholar_cite_url" I get all the citation options I expect (MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard, Vancouver, see second screenshot), instead of those in the actual json from SerpAPI.

I don't know if this is because the citation result is location dependent, so that when I access it from my location I get a different set of results to when whatever proxy SerpAPI accesses.

I don't know how this could be solved or if its even solvable. For my use-case I need citation info for each paper returned for a search term. At the moment I am using a citation parser to get that info from the citations on the cite page and to make this reliable as possible I would like to always parse the same citation style. However, this would be unnecessary if SerpAPI could directly return me the bibtex result from the cite page (which it doesn't currently do and Google Scholar is blocking me from doing on my end). I think anyone who is using the SerpAPI Google Scholar Cite API would prefer to be able to retrieve a bibtex file (or one of the other options there) as these are infinitely easier to manipulate programatically and can be used as inputs to other API services such as CrossRef to retrieve more info about papers. Is there any possibility of adding the ability to retrieve bibtex to the SerpAPI Google Scholar Cite API?

Hi Samuel Haysom I apologize for the radio silence. SerpApi is able to scrape exactly what's on the HTML provided by the query. If you are worried that there is going to be different and varying results, unfortunately we deal with Google which is a dynamic engine. Every search may not have all the citation information you need.

If you have an example of a search that is scraping improperly I would love to troubleshoot the issues with you.

For my application, I need to consistently be able to access the citation data in one of these formats. My fear is that the fact I am getting different results to the documentation indicates the output from this API won't be consistent over time and I might get a different set of fields on one day versus another. Is this likely to be the case?