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Citation Management

  • 1.6k installs
  • 255 repo stars
  • Updated February 27, 2026
  • lingzhi227/agent-research-skills

citation-management is an agent skill that manage bibtex citations for latex papers. harvest missing citations from a draft using semantic scholar, validate cite keys against .bib files, deduplicate entries, and format b

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citation-management is an agent skill from lingzhi227/agent-research-skills that manage bibtex citations for latex papers. harvest missing citations from a draft using semantic scholar, validate cite keys against .bib files, deduplicate entries, and format bibliography. use when w. # Citation Management Manage the full lifecycle of citations in a LaTeX paper. ## Input - `$0` — Action: `harvest`, `validate`, `add`, `format` - `$1` — Path to `.tex` or `.bib` file ## Scripts ### Validate citations (check all cite keys resolve) ```bash python ~/.claude/skills/citation-management/scripts/validate_citations.py \ --tex paper/ Developers invoke citation-management during idea/research work for documentation tasks. The skill documents triggers, prerequisites, and step-by-step workflows grounded in SKILL.md. Compatible with Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex agent runtimes that load marketplace skills. Review the Security Audits panel on this listing before installing in production environments.

  • Manage the full lifecycle of citations in a LaTeX paper.
  • `$0` — Action: `harvest`, `validate`, `add`, `format`
  • `$1` — Path to `.tex` or `.bib` file
  • Validate citations (check all cite keys resolve)
  • python ~/.claude/skills/citation-management/scripts/validate_citations.py \

Citation Management by the numbers

  • 1,630 all-time installs (skills.sh)
  • +51 installs in the week ending Aug 4, 2026 (Skillselion tracking)
  • Ranked #201 of 1,879 Documentation skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
  • Security screen: HIGH risk (skills.sh audit)
  • Data as of Aug 5, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
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citation-management capabilities & compatibility

Capabilities
manage the full lifecycle of citations in a late · `$0` — action: `harvest`, `validate`, `add`, `fo · `$1` — path to `.tex` or `.bib` file · validate citations (check all cite keys resolve) · python ~/.claude/skills/citation management/scri
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What citation-management says it does

Manage the full lifecycle of citations in a LaTeX paper.
SKILL.md
- `$0` — Action: `harvest`, `validate`, `add`, `format`
SKILL.md
python ~/.claude/skills/citation-management/scripts/validate_citations.py \
SKILL.md
npx skills add https://github.com/lingzhi227/agent-research-skills --skill citation-management

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Repositorylingzhi227/agent-research-skills

What it does

Manage BibTeX citations for LaTeX papers. Harvest missing citations from a draft using Semantic Scholar, validate cite keys against .bib files, deduplicate entries, and format bibliography. Use when w

Who is it for?

Developers working on documentation during idea tasks.

Skip if: Tasks outside Documentation scope described in SKILL.md.

When should I use this skill?

Manage BibTeX citations for LaTeX papers. Harvest missing citations from a draft using Semantic Scholar, validate cite keys against .bib files, deduplicate entries, and format bibliography. Use when w

What you get

Completed documentation workflow aligned with SKILL.md steps.

  • candidates.bib BibTeX entries
  • Under-cited sentence report
  • Semantic Scholar search matches

By the numbers

  • CLI supports --max-rounds 10 for iterative citation harvesting
  • Implemented as stdlib-only harvest_citations.py Python script

Files

SKILL.mdMarkdownGitHub ↗

Citation Management

Manage the full lifecycle of citations in a LaTeX paper.

Input

  • $0 — Action: harvest, validate, add, format
  • $1 — Path to .tex or .bib file

Scripts

Validate citations (check all cite keys resolve)

python ~/.claude/skills/citation-management/scripts/validate_citations.py \
  --tex paper/main.tex --bib paper/references.bib --check-figures --figures-dir paper/figures/

Reports: missing citations, unused bib entries, duplicate keys, duplicate sections, duplicate labels, undefined references, missing figures.

Generate BibTeX from paper database

python ~/.claude/skills/deep-research/scripts/bibtex_manager.py \
  --jsonl paper_db.jsonl --output references.bib

Search for a specific paper to add

python ~/.claude/skills/deep-research/scripts/search_semantic_scholar.py \
  --query "attention is all you need" --max-results 5 \
  --api-key "$(grep S2_API_Key /Users/lingzhi/Code/keys.md 2>/dev/null | cut -d: -f2 | tr -d ' ')"

Harvest missing citations automatically

python ~/.claude/skills/citation-management/scripts/harvest_citations.py \
  --tex paper/main.tex --bib paper/references.bib --output candidates.bib --max-rounds 10

Scans .tex for uncited claims, searches Semantic Scholar, outputs candidate BibTeX entries. Key flags: --dry-run (preview only), --verbose, --api-key

Auto-fix missing citation placeholders

python ~/.claude/skills/citation-management/scripts/validate_citations.py \
  --tex paper/main.tex --bib paper/references.bib --fix

Generates references_fixed.bib with placeholder entries for all missing citation keys.

Action: harvest — Iterative Citation Harvesting

Based on AI-Scientist's 20-round citation harvesting loop. For each round:

1. Read the current .tex draft 2. Identify the most important missing citation 3. Search Semantic Scholar via script 4. Select the most relevant paper from results 5. Extract BibTeX and generate a clean key (lastNameYearWord) 6. Append to .bib (skip if key exists) 7. Insert \cite{key} at the appropriate location 8. Stop when no more gaps or 20 rounds reached

Key rules:

  • DO NOT add a citation that already exists
  • Only add citations found via API — never fabricate
  • Cite broadly — not just popular papers
  • Do not copy verbatim from prior literature

Action: validate — Pre-Compilation Check

Run validate_citations.py to catch all issues before compilation. Fix any reported problems.

Action: add — Add Specific Paper

Search Semantic Scholar for the paper, extract BibTeX, clean the key, append to .bib.

BibTeX key format: firstAuthorLastNameYearFirstContentWord (e.g., vaswani2017attention)

Action: format — Standardize .bib

  • Sort entries alphabetically by key
  • Ensure consistent indentation (2 spaces)
  • Remove empty fields
  • Protect proper nouns with {Braces} in titles
  • Ensure required fields per entry type

Related Skills

  • Upstream: literature-search, deep-research
  • Downstream: paper-compilation, latex-formatting
  • See also: related-work-writing

Related skills

Forks & variants (2)

Citation Management has 2 known copies in the catalog totaling 14 installs. They canonicalize to this original listing.

FAQ

What does citation-management do?

Manage BibTeX citations for LaTeX papers. Harvest missing citations from a draft using Semantic Scholar, validate cite keys against .bib files, deduplicate entries, and format bibliography. Use when w

When should I use citation-management?

During idea research work for documentation.

Is citation-management safe to install?

Review the Security Audits panel on this listing before production use.

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