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ylj-footnotes-and-cite-check
Use when running the final footnote-apparatus audit of a The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) piece — verifying every cite exists, is pinpointed, is correct Bluebook form, and actually supports its sentence, in preparation for (or during) the student source-pull. It verifies; it does not construct new cites (ylj-sources-and-bluebook).
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# Footnotes & Cite-Check (ylj-footnotes-and-cite-check)
The heavy-footnote apparatus is what distinguishes legal scholarship, and YLJ's **source-pull** verifies
every footnote by hand. This skill runs the same audit *you* should run before submission and again
during editing, so the piece survives source-pull cleanly. It verifies an existing apparatus; building
cites is `ylj-sources-and-bluebook`, and the editorial cycle that triggers source-pull is
`ylj-revision-and-editing`.
## When to trigger
- Final pass before submission — the apparatus must be source-pull-ready
- Answering source-pull author queries during the editing cycle
- A reader or editor flagged a cite that may not support its sentence
- Reconciling short forms (`id.`, `supra`) and cross-references after heavy revision