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Reference audit guide

Skill kenantang/codex-and-claude-skills/collected-academic-research-skills/sources/Boom5426__Nature-Paper-Skills/skills/optional/reference-audit-guide

Use when the user asks for citation-verification principles, reference-audit best practices, or guidance on preventing fake or inaccurate citations in academic writing.From its SKILL.md

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Citation Verification Reference Guide

A reference guide for citation verification in academic paper writing, providing verification principles and best practices.

Core Principle: Proactively verify every citation during the writing process using trusted scholarly sources rather than memory.

Core Problems

Citation issues in academic papers seriously impact research integrity:

  1. Fake citations - Citing non-existent papers
  2. Incorrect information - Mismatched authors, titles, years, etc.
  3. Inconsistent formatting - Mixed citation formats
  4. Missing citations - Referenced but uncited work

These issues can lead to:

  • Paper rejection or retraction
  • Damage to academic reputation
  • Reviewers questioning research rigor

Verification Principles

This skill provides verification principles based on trusted scholarly sources:

1. Proactive Verification

Core idea: Verify immediately when adding a citation, rather than checking after writing is complete.

  • Search for the paper each time a citation is needed
  • Confirm the paper exists in a trusted source
  • Add to bibliography only after verification passes

2. Source Hierarchy

Prefer these sources:

  • publisher page or DOI resolver
  • PubMed for biomedical papers
  • arXiv for preprints
  • Crossref or Semantic Scholar for metadata cross-checking
  • Google Scholar as a fallback discovery aid

3. Information Matching Verification

Information that must match:

  • Title
  • Authors
  • Year
  • Publication venue

4. Claim Verification

Key principle: When citing a specific claim, confirm the claim actually appears in the paper.

  • Access the paper PDF
  • Search for relevant keywords
  • Confirm the accuracy of the claim
  • Record the section or page where the claim appears

Best Practices

  1. Never generate citations from memory
  2. Do not guess when verification fails
  3. Mark unverifiable references clearly
  4. Differentiate preprints from published versions
  5. Verify the claim, not just the metadata

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