version: "1.0.0" name: ai4scholar-auto-citation-bibtex description: "Use AI4Scholar auto_cite to add real citations to academic text and return formatted references and BibTeX. Trigger for automatic citation insertion, APA/IEEE/Vancouver/Nature citation support, reference generation, BibTeX export, or checking whether claims have real supporting papers."

AI4Scholar Auto Citation And BibTeX

Use this skill to add real citations to a user's academic text with AI4Scholar auto_cite, then audit whether the citations actually support the claims.

Core Rules

• auto_cite reduces fabricated citation risk but does not remove human verification.
• Never accept an added citation without checking sentence-level support.
• Do not add references to unsupported claims just to make the paragraph look scholarly.
• Keep the user's original data and claims intact unless asked to rewrite.
• Output references plus verification status.

Tool From The Source Guide

Before Calling auto_cite

Clarify or infer:

• Citation style: APA, IEEE, Vancouver, or Nature.
• Field: management, psychology, neuroscience, BCI, HCI, text mining, etc.
• Preference: recent five-year papers, top journals, classic foundations, or mixed.
• Whether the text is Chinese or English.
• Whether the output should preserve wording or lightly polish prose.

Auto-Citation Workflow

1. Segment the text into claim units.
2. Identify claims that need citations:

• theoretical mechanism,
• empirical fact,
• method precedent,
• measurement source,
• benchmark claim,
• statistical or neuroscience convention.

1. Call auto_cite with the citation style and text.
2. For every inserted citation, build an audit table:

• sentence,
• citation,
• support strength,
• DOI/ID,
• action.

1. Remove or flag weak citations.
2. Return:

• cited text,
• reference list,
• BibTeX,
• verification warnings.

Output Template

Citation style:
Tool used: auto_cite
 
Cited text:
 
References:
 
BibTeX:
 
Citation audit:
| Sentence/claim | Citation | DOI/ID | Support strength | Action |
 
Needs manual verification:

Beginner Prompt

Use AI4Scholar auto_cite to add APA 7th citations to the following Introduction paragraph.
Prioritize real top-journal and recent five-year literature, while preserving necessary classics.
Return the cited text, reference list, BibTeX, and a sentence-level citation-support audit table.

Red Flags

• Citation supports a nearby topic but not the exact claim.
• Method citation is used to support a theory claim.
• Review paper is used where primary empirical evidence is needed.
• A preprint is cited as final evidence when a peer-reviewed version exists.