NLP to Process Academic Citations

I have to process undergraduate and postgraduate student essays using spaCy. One of my first step is to remove citations, both narrative and parenthetical ones. And I am using regex to do this. My regex is getting longer and longer and becoming very unwieldy. Moreover, I am assuming students are using APA 7th and not earlier versions or other styles entirely.

I am unable to get good results using NER or POS so have to rely on regex.

Are there …

academic citations languagetechnology nlp