Reference Audit Guide
Use when the user asks for citation-verification principles, reference-audit best practices, or guidance on preventing fake or inaccurate citations in academic writing.
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Citation Verification Reference Guide
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.
Core Problems
Citation issues in academic papers seriously impact research integrity:
- Fake citations - Citing non-existent papers
- Incorrect information - Mismatched authors, titles, years, etc.
- Inconsistent formatting - Mixed citation formats
- Missing citations - Referenced but uncited work
These issues can lead to:
- Paper rejection or retraction
- Damage to academic reputation
- Reviewers questioning research rigor
Verification Principles
This skill provides verification principles based on trusted scholarly sources:
1. Proactive Verification
Core idea: Verify immediately when adding a citation, rather than checking after writing is complete.
- Search for the paper each time a citation is needed
- Confirm the paper exists in a trusted source
- Add to bibliography only after verification passes
2. Source Hierarchy
Prefer these sources:
- publisher page or DOI resolver
- PubMed for biomedical papers
- arXiv for preprints
- Crossref or Semantic Scholar for metadata cross-checking
- Google Scholar as a fallback discovery aid
3. Information Matching Verification
Information that must match:
- Title
- Authors
- Year
- Publication venue
4. Claim Verification
Key principle: When citing a specific claim, confirm the claim actually appears in the paper.
- Access the paper PDF
- Search for relevant keywords
- Confirm the accuracy of the claim
- Record the section or page where the claim appears
Best Practices
- Never generate citations from memory
- Do not guess when verification fails
- Mark unverifiable references clearly
- Differentiate preprints from published versions
- Verify the claim, not just the metadata
Source & license
This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.
- Author: Boom5426
- Source: Boom5426/Nature-Paper-Skills
- License: MIT
Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.
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Versions
- v0.1.0 Imported from the upstream source.