Citation Management
Generate and normalize BibTeX entries for papers, books, and reports while writing technical docs or research-backed posts.
Overview
Citation-management is an agent skill for the Build phase that supplies BibTeX templates and examples so solo builders can add consistent scholarly citations to documentation.
Install
npx skills add https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates --skill citation-managementWhat is this skill?
- BibTeX templates for common entry types starting with journal articles
- Worked examples including Nature and Science-style @article blocks
- DOI and page-range fields modeled for reproducible references
- Book and additional source sections indicated in the template file structure
- Copy-paste patterns agents can extend into a full .bib library
- Worked journal-article examples include multi-author AlphaFold, Watson–Crick, and CRISPR-style entries
Adoption & trust: 1k installs on skills.sh; 27.8k GitHub stars; 2/3 security scanners passed (skills.sh audits).
What problem does it solve?
You are writing technical or research content but lack a consistent BibTeX pattern for journals, DOIs, and author lists.
Who is it for?
Developers publishing papers, ML explainers, or open-source docs that need Nature/Science-style citation blocks without leaving the editor.
Skip if: Builders who only need inline markdown links with no bibliography export, or teams standardized on Zotero-only GUI workflows with no agent drafting.
When should I use this skill?
You are authoring documentation or research content that requires BibTeX-formatted citations.
What do I get? / Deliverables
You get ready-to-adapt @article (and related) entries your agent can replicate across a .bib file tied to your docs build.
- BibTeX entry blocks aligned to common journal article shape
- Extended .bib snippets ready to merge into project documentation
Recommended Skills
Journey fit
Canonical shelf in Build because citations are authored alongside documentation, READMEs, and publishable artifacts—not during initial market validation alone. Docs subphase is where bibliographies, footnotes, and reference sections are assembled for solo builders shipping explainers or academic-style outputs.
How it compares
Template-style skill for BibTeX strings—not a live DOI lookup MCP or reference database integration.
Common Questions / FAQ
Who is citation-management for?
Solo builders and small teams drafting LaTeX, Pandoc, or static-site documentation who want agents to format bibliographies using proven BibTeX examples.
When should I use citation-management?
During Build docs work whenever you add literature citations to READMEs, whitepapers, or blog posts and need consistent @article metadata before you ship.
Is citation-management safe to install?
Treat it as static template text; confirm license and file contents on this Prism page’s Security Audits panel and in the template repo before trusting automated edits to your .bib files.
SKILL.md
READMESKILL.md - Citation Management
% BibTeX Template File % Examples of properly formatted entries for all common types % ============================================================================= % JOURNAL ARTICLES % ============================================================================= @article{Jumper2021, author = {Jumper, John and Evans, Richard and Pritzel, Alexander and Green, Tim and Figurnov, Michael and Ronneberger, Olaf and Tunyasuvunakool, Kathryn and Bates, Russ and {\v{Z}}{\'\i}dek, Augustin and Potapenko, Anna and others}, title = {Highly Accurate Protein Structure Prediction with {AlphaFold}}, journal = {Nature}, year = {2021}, volume = {596}, number = {7873}, pages = {583--589}, doi = {10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2} } @article{Watson1953, author = {Watson, James D. and Crick, Francis H. C.}, title = {Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid}, journal = {Nature}, year = {1953}, volume = {171}, number = {4356}, pages = {737--738}, doi = {10.1038/171737a0} } @article{Doudna2014, author = {Doudna, Jennifer A. and Charpentier, Emmanuelle}, title = {The New Frontier of Genome Engineering with {CRISPR-Cas9}}, journal = {Science}, year = {2014}, volume = {346}, number = {6213}, pages = {1258096}, doi = {10.1126/science.1258096} } % ============================================================================= % BOOKS % ============================================================================= @book{Kumar2021, author = {Kumar, Vinay and Abbas, Abul K. and Aster, Jon C.}, title = {Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease}, publisher = {Elsevier}, year = {2021}, edition = {10}, address = {Philadelphia, PA}, isbn = {978-0-323-53113-9} } @book{Alberts2014, author = {Alberts, Bruce and Johnson, Alexander and Lewis, Julian and Morgan, David and Raff, Martin and Roberts, Keith and Walter, Peter}, title = {Molecular Biology of the Cell}, publisher = {Garland Science}, year = {2014}, edition = {6}, address = {New York, NY}, isbn = {978-0-815-34432-2} } % Book with editor instead of author @book{Sambrook2001, editor = {Sambrook, Joseph and Russell, David W.}, title = {Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual}, publisher = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press}, year = {2001}, edition = {3}, address = {Cold Spring Harbor, NY}, isbn = {978-0-879-69576-7} } % ============================================================================= % CONFERENCE PAPERS (PROCEEDINGS) % ============================================================================= @inproceedings{Vaswani2017, author = {Vaswani, Ashish and Shazeer, Noam and Parmar, Niki and Uszkoreit, Jakob and Jones, Llion and Gomez, Aidan N. and Kaiser, {\L}ukasz and Polosukhin, Illia}, title = {Attention is All You Need}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30 (NeurIPS 2017)}, year = {2017}, pages = {5998--6008}, address = {Long Beach, CA}, url = {https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2017/hash/3f5ee243547dee91fbd053c1c4a845aa-Abstract.html} } @inproceedings{He2016, author = {He, Kaiming and Zhang, Xiangyu and Ren, Shaoqing and Sun, Jian}, title = {Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2016}, pages = {770--778}, address = {Las Vegas, NV}, doi = {10.1109/CVPR.2016.90} } % ============================================================================= % BOOK CHAPTERS % ============================================================================= @incollection{Brown2020, author = {Brown, Peter O. and Botstein, David}, title = {Exploring the New World of the Genome with {DNA} Microarrays}, booktitle = {DNA Microarrays: A Molecular Cloning Ma