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Resolves, verifies and formats references, every citation confirmed against Crossref, OpenAlex, arXiv or PubMed before it enters the bibliography, BibTeX built from resolved metadata, and existing .bib files audited for fabricated or mismatched entries. Use when adding citations to a draft, building or repairing a .bib, checking a manuscript's references, or whenever a claim needs a source attached. Not for finding what to read (use literature-review).

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# Citations

A citation is a claim that a specific document says a specific thing. Language models
produce plausible references that do not exist, and reviewers now check. The rule is
simple and absolute: nothing enters the bibliography that was not resolved from a live
record, and nothing is cited for a claim that was not read.

## Non-negotiables

1. **Resolve before you cite.** Every entry comes from a record fetched now: a DOI at
   Crossref, a work at OpenAlex, an arXiv id, a PMID. Author names, year, title, venue,
   pages and DOI are copied from that record, never recalled or completed from memory.
2. **Read before you attribute.** Cite a paper for a finding only after reading the passage
   (abstract at minimum; the result section for numbers). A title is not evidence of what a