Citation Management
Format and maintain BibTeX citation entries for papers, books, and preprints so scientific docs and manuscripts stay consistent.
Overview
Citation Management is an agent skill for the Build phase that supplies BibTeX templates and field conventions for scientific bibliographies.
Install
npx skills add https://github.com/k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills --skill citation-managementWhat is this skill?
- BibTeX template examples for journal articles, books, and other common publication types
- Field patterns for author lists, titles, volumes, pages, and DOI metadata
- Ready-to-copy entry shapes for high-impact exemplar citations in the template file
- Supports consistent bibliographies for agent-assisted scientific writing workflows
- Template sections for journal articles, books, and additional common BibTeX entry types in the bundled examples file
Adoption & trust: 627 installs on skills.sh; 27.6k GitHub stars; 2/3 security scanners passed (skills.sh audits).
What problem does it solve?
You are drafting research docs but your .bib entries use inconsistent fields and formats that break builds or reference tools.
Who is it for?
Indie researchers and builders writing technical or scientific content who want copy-paste-correct BibTeX shapes in agent workflows.
Skip if: Users who need automated citation lookup, Zotero sync, or legal citation styles outside BibTeX without manual metadata entry.
When should I use this skill?
Creating or correcting BibTeX entries while writing scientific or technical documentation that requires a .bib bibliography.
What do I get? / Deliverables
New and updated bibliography entries follow documented BibTeX patterns so manuscripts and doc pipelines compile cleanly.
- Properly structured BibTeX entry blocks
- Consistent citation keys and DOI fields for your bibliography
Recommended Skills
Journey fit
Citation libraries belong in Build/docs when you are producing research notes, papers, or technical write-ups that agents help draft. Docs is the shelf for bibliography templates and reference-metadata skills that support written deliverables, not runtime code.
How it compares
A bibliography template pack—not a reference-database MCP connector or literature search skill.
Common Questions / FAQ
Who is citation-management for?
Solo builders and scientists using AI agents to draft papers, lab notes, or README-adjacent research docs who maintain a .bib file by hand.
When should I use citation-management?
Use it in Build while authoring documentation or manuscripts whenever you add or normalize BibTeX keys for articles, books, or similar sources.
Is citation-management safe to install?
It is primarily static template content; still review the Security Audits panel on this Prism page before installing any skill from the catalog.
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