// Use when the user asks for citation-verification principles, reference-audit best practices, or guidance on preventing fake or inaccurate citations in academic writing.
| name | reference-audit-guide |
| description | Use when the user asks for citation-verification principles, reference-audit best practices, or guidance on preventing fake or inaccurate citations in academic writing. |
A reference guide for citation verification in academic paper writing, providing verification principles and best practices.
Core Principle: Proactively verify every citation during the writing process using trusted scholarly sources rather than memory.
Citation issues in academic papers seriously impact research integrity:
These issues can lead to:
This skill provides verification principles based on trusted scholarly sources:
Core idea: Verify immediately when adding a citation, rather than checking after writing is complete.
Prefer these sources:
Information that must match:
Key principle: When citing a specific claim, confirm the claim actually appears in the paper.
Use when checking manuscript citations, bibliography hygiene, DOI or PMID completeness, placeholder references, or BibTeX consistency before submission or revision.
Use when drafting, auditing, or revising Data Availability statements, repository plans, accession-number placement, source-data coverage, or restricted-data wording for journal submission or resubmission.
Use when starting a new manuscript project or cleaning up an existing paper directory and you need a standard structure, active source files, project memory, and venue defaults before deeper writing begins.
Use when deciding which paper-related skill to use or how to sequence manuscript work from project setup through submission and rebuttal.
Use when responding to journal or conference reviewer comments and you need a structured author response, aligned manuscript edits, and clear decisions about when to clarify, add evidence, concede, or respectfully disagree.
Use when writing or revising scientific manuscripts, abstracts, figures, or references for journal submission and you need full-paragraph prose, scientific structure, citation-style guidance, or reporting-guideline support.