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Comprehensive citation management for academic research. Search OpenAlex, PubMed, and Google Scholar for papers, extract accurate metadata, validate citations, and generate properly formatted BibTeX entries. This skill should be used when you need to find papers, verify citation
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Comprehensive citation management for academic research. Search OpenAlex, PubMed, and Google Scholar for papers, extract accurate metadata, validate citations, and generate properly formatted BibTeX entries. This skill should be used when you need to find papers, verify citation information, convert DOIs to BibTeX, or ensure reference accuracy in scientific writing.
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Citation Management
Overview
Manage citations systematically throughout the research and writing process. This skill provides tools and strategies for searching academic databases (Google Scholar, PubMed), extracting accurate metadata from multiple sources (CrossRef, PubMed, arXiv), validating citation information, and generating properly formatted BibTeX entries.
Critical for maintaining citation accuracy, avoiding reference errors, and ensuring reproducible research. Integrates seamlessly with the literature-review skill for comprehensive research workflows.
When to Use This Skill
Use this skill when:
- Searching for specific papers on Google Scholar or PubMed
- Converting DOIs, PMIDs, or arXiv IDs to properly formatted BibTeX
- Extracting complete metadata for citations (authors, title, journal, year, etc.)
- Validating existing citations for accuracy
- Cleaning and formatting BibTeX files
- Finding highly cited papers in a specific field
- Verifying that citation information matches the actual publication
- Building a bibliography for a manuscript or thesis
- Checking for duplicate citations
- Ensuring consistent citation formatting
If a document built from these citations needs a diagram, use the scientific-schematics skill.
Core Workflow
Citation management follows a systematic process. Each phase below shows the canonical command; every variant, option, and metadata-source detail is in references/core_workflow.md.
Phase 1: Paper Discovery and Search
Find relevant papers. Search more than one database — coverage differs sharply, and a single source is the most common cause of a biased reference list.
# OpenAlex: ~250M works, every discipline, no API key, documented REST API
python scripts/search_openalex.py "CRISPR gene editing" --limit 50 --output results.json
# PubMed: the authority for biomedical and life sciences (35M+ citations)
python scripts/search_pubmed.py "Alzheimer's disease treatment" --limit 100 --output alz.json
# Google Scholar: broadest reach, but scraped -- rate-limited and prone to blocking
python scripts/search_google_scholar.py "CRISPR gene editing" --limit 50 --output scholar.json
Prefer OpenAlex or PubMed as the primary source. Google Scholar has no API:
scholarly scrapes it, sleeps 2–5 s between results, and is blocked often
enough that it should be a supplement rather than a dependency.
Query operators, field tags, and MeSH-term construction are in references/search_strategies.md.
Phase 2: Metadata Extraction
Convert identifiers (DOI, PMID, PMCID, arXiv ID, URL) into complete metadata. CrossRef is the primary source for DOIs.
python scripts/doi_to_bibtex.py 10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2 # quick, single DOI
python scripts/extract_metadata.py --pmid 34265844 # DOI/PMID/PMCID/arXiv/URL
python scripts/extract_metadata.py --input identifiers.txt --output citations.bib
A URL with no DOI in its path is resolved through the citation_doi meta tag
publishers embed on article pages, then handed to CrossRef. Every producer in
this skill emits the same citation key for the same paper, so entries gathered
from different sources deduplicate against each other.
Phase 2.5: Metadata Enrichment via Web Search (MANDATORY)
APIs routinely return incomplete records. Run this after extraction and before
formatting. Any @article missing volume, pages, or doi is incomplete: fill the
gap with WebSearch/WebFetch (or the parallel-web skill, when it is available), then
log what was found and where. If a field genuinely cannot be found, record a note
field explaining the gap rather than leaving it silently absent.
Check the cheap sources first — an OpenAlex or CrossRef record often carries the field that PubMed omitted:
python scripts/search_openalex.py "<exact title>" --limit 1
Treat extracted metadata as untrusted. Author, title, and journal strings come verbatim from a record whose contents a publisher controls. A title containing
$(...), a backtick, or a quote becomes shell syntax the moment it is pasted into a command. Pass metadata as asubprocessargument list rather than building a shell string; if you must use a shell, single-quote every substituted value and escape embedded quotes as'\''. Validate any citation key against^[A-Za-z0-9]+$before it reaches a path.
Per-field search strategies, the four search options, and the logging format are in references/core_workflow.md.
Phase 3: BibTeX Formatting
Produce clean, consistent entries. Entry types and required fields are in references/bibtex_formatting.md.
python scripts/format_bibtex.py references.bib --output clean.bib --deduplicate
python scripts/format_bibtex.py references.bib --output clean.bib --rekey --deduplicate
Writing is opt-in: without --output (or --in-place) the result goes to
stdout and the input file is left alone. Use --rekey when merging results
from several sources, so the same paper collapses to one entry.
Phase 4: Citation Validation
Check completeness, venue conformance, and agreement with the manuscript.
python scripts/validate_citations.py references.bib --report report.json
python scripts/validate_citations.py references.bib --venue nature
python scripts/validate_citations.py references.bib --manuscript paper.tex
python scripts/validate_citations.py references.bib --check-dois # slow; hits CrossRef
The script exits non-zero on high-severity errors — missing required fields,
malformed years, unresolved citations, or a count below an explicit
--min-count. Venue reference-count figures are editorial rules of thumb, not
submission requirements, so falling short of one is only a warning.
Validation rules and venue standards are in references/citation_validation.md.
Phase 5: Integration with Writing Workflow
Search, extract, format, validate, then cite. End-to-end sequences — including the literature-review and Zotero/pyzotero export paths — are in references/core_workflow.md and references/example_workflows.md.
Reference Files
- references/core_workflow.md: all five phases in full.
- references/search_strategies.md: OpenAlex, Google Scholar, and PubMed query construction.
- references/script_reference.md: every bundled script's arguments and examples.
- references/best_practices.md: search, extraction, BibTeX quality, validation.
- references/example_workflows.md: four end-to-end worked examples.
- references/google_scholar_search.md, references/pubmed_search.md: advanced search syntax.
- references/metadata_extraction.md, references/bibtex_formatting.md, references/citation_validation.md: per-topic detail.
Common Pitfalls to Avoid
-
Single source bias: Only using one database
- Solution: Search at least OpenAlex and PubMed, then merge with
format_bibtex.py --rekey --deduplicate
- Solution: Search at least OpenAlex and PubMed, then merge with
-
Accepting metadata blindly: Not verifying extracted information
- Solution: Spot-check extracted metadata against original sources
-
Ignoring DOI errors: Broken or incorrect DOIs in bibliography
- Solution: Run validation before final submission
-
Inconsistent formatting: Mixed citation key styles, formatting
- Solution: Use format_bibtex.py to standardize
-
Duplicate entries: Same paper cited multiple times with different keys
- Solution: Use duplicate detection in validation
-
Missing required fields: Incomplete BibTeX entries (volume, pages, DOI missing)
- Solution: Run Phase 2.5 metadata enrichment — web search for every missing field before proceeding. NEVER leave an @article entry without volume, pages, and DOI.
-
Outdated preprints: Citing preprint when published version exists
- Solution: Check if preprints have been published, update to journal version
-
Special character issues: Broken LaTeX compilation due to characters
- Solution: Use proper escaping or Unicode in BibTeX
-
No validation before submission: Submitting with citation errors
- Solution: Always run validation as final check
-
Manual BibTeX entry: Typing entries by hand
- Solution: Always extract from metadata sources using scripts
Integration with Other Skills
Literature Review Skill
Citation Management provides the technical infrastructure for Literature Review:
- Literature Review: Multi-database systematic search and synthesis
- Citation Management: Metadata extraction and validation
Combined workflow:
- Use literature-review for systematic search methodology
- Use citation-management to extract and validate citations
- Use literature-review to synthesize findings
- Use citation-management to ensure bibliography accuracy
Scientific Writing Skill
Citation Management ensures accurate references for Scientific Writing:
- Export validated BibTeX for use in LaTeX manuscripts
- Verify citations match publication standards
- Format references according to journal requirements
Venue Templates Skill
Citation Management works with Venue Templates for submission-ready manuscripts:
- Different venues require different citation styles
- Generate properly formatted references
- Validate citations meet venue requirements
Resources
Bundled Resources
References (in references/):
google_scholar_search.md: Complete Google Scholar search guidepubmed_search.md: PubMed and E-utilities API documentationmetadata_extraction.md: Metadata sources and field requirementscitation_validation.md: Validation criteria and quality checksbibtex_formatting.md: BibTeX entry types and formatting rules
Scripts (in scripts/):
search_openalex.py: OpenAlex search client (no API key)search_pubmed.py: PubMed E-utilities API clientsearch_google_scholar.py: Google Scholar search automationextract_metadata.py: Universal metadata extractorvalidate_citations.py: Citation validation and verificationformat_bibtex.py: BibTeX formatter and cleanerdoi_to_bibtex.py: Quick DOI to BibTeX converter_common.py: shared BibTeX parser, renderer, and citation-key scheme
Assets (in assets/):
- `bibtex_temp
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name: citation-management
description: Comprehensive citation management for academic research. Search OpenAlex, PubMed, and Google Scholar for papers, extract accurate metadata, validate citations, and generate properly formatted BibTeX entries. This skill should be used when you need to find papers, verify citation information, convert DOIs to BibTeX, or ensure reference accuracy in scientific writing.
allowed-tools: Read Write Edit Bash WebSearch WebFetch
license: MIT License
compatibility: Requires Python 3.9+ with requests. Google Scholar search additionally needs scholarly. Needs network access to api.openalex.org, api.crossref.org, eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, export.arxiv.org, and api.datacite.org.
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description: Comprehensive citation management for academic research. Search OpenAlex, PubMed, and Google Scholar for papers, extract accurate metadata, validate citations, and generate properly formatted BibTeX entries. This skill should be used when you need to find papers, verify citation information, convert DOIs to BibTeX, or ensure reference accuracy in scientific writing.
allowed-tools: Read Write Edit Bash WebSearch WebFetch
license: MIT License
compatibility: Requires Python 3.9+ with requests. Google Scholar search additionally needs scholarly. Needs network access to api.openalex.org, api.crossref.org, eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, export.arxiv.org, and api.datacite.org.
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skill-author: K-Dense Inc.
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- name: NCBI_EMAIL
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description: Email for NCBI Entrez identification.
- name: NCBI_API_KEY
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description: NCBI API key to raise Entrez rate limits.
- name: OPENALEX_EMAIL
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description: Contact email for the faster OpenAlex polite pool.
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# Citation Management
## Overview
Manage citations systematically throughout the research and writing process. This skill provides tools and strategies for searching academic databases (Google Scholar, PubMed), extracting accurate metadata from multiple sources (CrossRef, PubMed, arXiv), validating citation information, and generating properly formatted BibTeX entries.
Critical for maintaining citation accuracy, avoiding reference errors, and ensuring reproducible research. Integrates seamlessly with the literature-review skill for comprehensive research workflows.
## When to Use This Skill
Use this skill when:
- Searching for specific papers on Google Scholar or PubMed
- Converting DOIs, PMIDs, or arXiv IDs to properly formatted BibTeX
- Extracting complete metadata for citations (authors, title, journal, year, etc.)
- Validating existing citations for accuracy
- Cleaning and formatting BibTeX files
- Finding highly cited papers in a specific field
- Verifying that citation information matches the actual publication
- Building a bibliography for a manuscript or thesis
- Checking for duplicate citations
- Ensuring consistent citation formatting
If a document built from these citations needs a diagram, use the
**scientific-schematics** skill.
---
## Core Workflow
Citation management follows a systematic process. Each phase below shows the canonical
command; every variant, option, and metadata-source detail is in
[references/core_workflow.md](references/core_workflow.md).
### Phase 1: Paper Discovery and Search
Find relevant papers. Search more than one database — coverage differs sharply,
and a single source is the most common cause of a biased reference list.
```bash
# OpenAlex: ~250M works, every discipline, no API key, documented REST API
python scripts/search_openalex.py "CRISPR gene editing" --limit 50 --output results.json
# PubMed: the authority for biomedical and life sciences (35M+ citations)
python scripts/search_pubmed.py "Alzheimer's disease treatment" --limit 100 --output alz.json
# Google Scholar: broadest reach, but scraped -- rate-limited and prone to blocking
python scripts/search_google_scholar.py "CRISPR gene editing" --limit 50 --output scholar.json
```
Prefer OpenAlex or PubMed as the primary source. Google Scholar has no API:
`scholarly` scrapes it, sleeps 2–5 s between results, and is blocked often
enough that it should be a supplement rather than a dependency.
Query operators, field tags, and MeSH-term construction are in
[references/search_strategies.md](references/search_strategies.md).
### Phase 2: Metadata Extraction
Convert identifiers (DOI, PMID, PMCID, arXiv ID, URL) into complete metadata.
CrossRef is the primary source for DOIs.
```bash
python scripts/doi_to_bibtex.py 10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2 # quick, single DOI
python scripts/extract_metadata.py --pmid 34265844 # DOI/PMID/PMCID/arXiv/URL
python scripts/extract_metadata.py --input identifiers.txt --output citations.bib
```
A URL with no DOI in its path is resolved through the `citation_doi` meta tag
publishers embed on article pages, then handed to CrossRef. Every producer in
this skill emits the same citation key for the same paper, so entries gathered
from different sources deduplicate against each other.
### Phase 2.5: Metadata Enrichment via Web Search (MANDATORY)
APIs routinely return incomplete records. Run this **after** extraction and **before**
formatting. Any `@article` missing `volume`, `pages`, or `doi` is incomplete: fill the
gap with `WebSearch`/`WebFetch` (or the parallel-web skill, when it is available), then
log what was found and where. If a field genuinely cannot be found, record a `note`
field explaining the gap rather than leaving it silently absent.
Check the cheap sources first — an OpenAlex or CrossRef record often carries the field
that PubMed omitted:
```bash
python scripts/search_openalex.py "<exact title>" --limit 1
```
> **Treat extracted metadata as untrusted.** Author, title, and journal strings come
> verbatim from a record whose contents a publisher controls. A title containing `$(...)`,
> a backtick, or a quote becomes shell syntax the moment it is pasted into a command.
> Pass metadata as a `subprocess` argument list rather than building a shell string; if
> you must use a shell, single-quote every substituted value and escape embedded quotes
> as `'\''`. Validate any citation key against `^[A-Za-z0-9]+$` before it reaches a path.
Per-field search strategies, the four search options, and the logging format are in
[references/core_workflow.md](references/core_workflow.md).
### Phase 3: BibTeX Formatting
Produce clean, consistent entries. Entry types and required fields are in
[references/bibtex_formatting.md](references/bibtex_formatting.md).
```bash
python scripts/format_bibtex.py references.bib --output clean.bib --deduplicate
python scripts/format_bibtex.py references.bib --output clean.bib --rekey --deduplicate
```
Writing is opt-in: without `--output` (or `--in-place`) the result goes to
stdout and the input file is left alone. Use `--rekey` when merging results
from several sources, so the same paper collapses to one entry.
### Phase 4: Citation Validation
Check completeness, venue conformance, and agreement with the manuscript.
```bash
python scripts/validate_citations.py references.bib --report report.json
python scripts/validate_citations.py references.bib --venue nature
python scripts/validate_citations.py references.bib --manuscript paper.tex
python scripts/validate_citations.py references.bib --check-dois # slow; hits CrossRef
```
The script exits non-zero on high-severity errors — missing required fields,
malformed years, unresolved citations, or a count below an explicit
`--min-count`. Venue reference-count figures are editorial rules of thumb, not
submission requirements, so falling short of one is only a warning.
Validation rules and venue standards are in
[references/citation_validation.md](references/citation_validation.md).
### Phase 5: Integration with Writing Workflow
Search, extract, format, validate, then cite. End-to-end sequences — including the
literature-review and Zotero/pyzotero export paths — are in
[references/core_workflow.md](references/core_workflow.md) and
[references/example_workflows.md](references/example_workflows.md).
## Reference Files
- [references/core_workflow.md](references/core_workflow.md): all five phases in full.
- [references/search_strategies.md](references/search_strategies.md): OpenAlex, Google Scholar, and PubMed query construction.
- [references/script_reference.md](references/script_reference.md): every bundled script's arguments and examples.
- [references/best_practices.md](references/best_practices.md): search, extraction, BibTeX quality, validation.
- [references/example_workflows.md](references/example_workflows.md): four end-to-end worked examples.
- [references/google_scholar_search.md](references/google_scholar_search.md), [references/pubmed_search.md](references/pubmed_search.md): advanced search syntax.
- [references/metadata_extraction.md](references/metadata_extraction.md), [references/bibtex_formatting.md](references/bibtex_formatting.md), [references/citation_validation.md](references/citation_validation.md): per-topic detail.
## Common Pitfalls to Avoid
1. **Single source bias**: Only using one database
- **Solution**: Search at least OpenAlex and PubMed, then merge with
`format_bibtex.py --rekey --deduplicate`
2. **Accepting metadata blindly**: Not verifying extracted information
- **Solution**: Spot-check extracted metadata against original sources
3. **Ignoring DOI errors**: Broken or incorrect DOIs in bibliography
- **Solution**: Run validation before final submission
4. **Inconsistent formatting**: Mixed citation key styles, formatting
- **Solution**: Use format_bibtex.py to standardize
5. **Duplicate entries**: Same paper cited multiple times with different keys
- **Solution**: Use duplicate detection in validation
6. **Missing required fields**: Incomplete BibTeX entries (volume, pages, DOI missing)
- **Solution**: Run Phase 2.5 metadata enrichment — web search for every missing field before proceeding. NEVER leave an @article entry without volume, pages, and DOI.
7. **Outdated preprints**: Citing preprint when published version exists
- **Solution**: Check if preprints have been published, update to journal version
8. **Special character issues**: Broken LaTeX compilation due to characters
- **Solution**: Use proper escaping or Unicode in BibTeX
9. **No validation before submission**: Submitting with citation errors
- **Solution**: Always run validation as final check
10. **Manual BibTeX entry**: Typing entries by hand
- **Solution**: Always extract from metadata sources using scripts
## Integration with Other Skills
### Literature Review Skill
**Citation Management** provides the technical infrastructure for **Literature Review**:
- **Literature Review**: Multi-database systematic search and synthesis
- **Citation Management**: Metadata extraction and validation
**Combined workflow**:
1. Use literature-review for systematic search methodology
2. Use citation-management to extract and validate citations
3. Use literature-review to synthesize findings
4. Use citation-management to ensure bibliography accuracy
### Scientific Writing Skill
**Citation Management** ensures accurate references for **Scientific Writing**:
- Export validated BibTeX for use in LaTeX manuscripts
- Verify citations match publication standards
- Format references according to journal requirements
### Venue Templates Skill
**Citation Management** works with **Venue Templates** for submission-ready manuscripts:
- Different venues require different citation styles
- Generate properly formatted references
- Validate citations meet venue requirements
## Resources
### Bundled Resources
**References** (in `references/`):
- `google_scholar_search.md`: Complete Google Scholar search guide
- `pubmed_search.md`: PubMed and E-utilities API documentation
- `metadata_extraction.md`: Metadata sources and field requirements
- `citation_validation.md`: Validation criteria and quality checks
- `bibtex_formatting.md`: BibTeX entry types and formatting rules
**Scripts** (in `scripts/`):
- `search_openalex.py`: OpenAlex search client (no API key)
- `search_pubmed.py`: PubMed E-utilities API client
- `search_google_scholar.py`: Google Scholar search automation
- `extract_metadata.py`: Universal metadata extractor
- `validate_citations.py`: Citation validation and verification
- `format_bibtex.py`: BibTeX formatter and cleaner
- `doi_to_bibtex.py`: Quick DOI to BibTeX converter
- `_common.py`: shared BibTeX parser, renderer, and citation-key scheme
**Assets** (in `assets/`):
- `bibtex_tempQuelle prüfen
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- The skill relies on multiple external APIs; network failures or rate limits could interrupt workflows, but the documentation acknowledges this and provides fallbacks.
- Financial research output is not financial advice; require human review before any live investment decision.
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