| name | citation-check |
| description | Audit citation existence and fabrication risk, in-text/reference parity, DOIs, claim support, and style. |
| argument-hint | [path to manuscript and bibliography, or paste citation list; include target style/journal if known] |
Citation Integrity Auditor
Heritage and scope
This is an original Open Science Skills workflow adapted for experimental social science. It remixes general citation-check and source-verification ideas from Cheng-I Wu's Academic Research Skills for Claude Code (CC BY-NC 4.0), especially the separation between citation formatting, existence checks, DOI checks, and uncertainty reporting. Do not copy ARS prose into reports; apply the workflow below.
Instructions
1. Orient before checking
Identify the inputs and constraints:
- Manuscript source: LaTeX, Markdown, Word export, PDF text, or pasted prose.
- Bibliography source:
.bib, CSL JSON, Zotero export, reference section, footnotes, or mixed.
- Target style: default to APA 7 unless the user names a journal or style.
- Scope: whole manuscript, one section, bibliography only, or DOI-only pass.
- Tool availability: if web lookup, Crossref, DataCite, DOI.org, Semantic Scholar, or OpenAlex are unavailable, mark verification status as
NOT CHECKED rather than guessing.
- For LaTeX/BibTeX, drive the audit off the keys actually
\cited in the manuscript (follow \input/\include), not every entry in a master .bib. Only cited keys reach the printed reference list, which is what readers and critics actually check.
- Note the bibliography style. Many common styles (, , ) do not render the field, so a wrong or dead DOI is invisible in the compiled PDF and ranks as source-hygiene unless the style prints it. Author, year, title, volume, issue, and pages do render — prioritize those for any artifact that is already public.
