Manage Citations Skill

Find, import, and manage citations for your paper. Acts as a Bibliography Manager supporting both BibTeX (LaTeX) and Word bibliography (DOCX) formats.

Overview

This skill helps you:

• Search for relevant academic papers
• Generate BibTeX entries or Word bibliography sources
• Import citations from external sources
• Validate bibliography files
• Deduplicate entries
• Manage citation keys

Commands

/manage-citations search <topic> [--format latex|docx]

Search for papers and generate citation entries.

Parameters:

• topic (required): Search query (e.g., "transformers attention", "graph neural networks")
• --format latex|docx (optional): Citation format (default: latex)

/manage-citations import <file> [--format latex|docx]

Import bibliography from external file.

Parameters:

• file (required): Path to bibliography file (BibTeX, Zotero export, Mendeley export)
• --format latex|docx (optional): Target format (default: latex)

/manage-citations validate [--format latex|docx]

Validate bibliography file.

Parameters:

• --format latex|docx (optional): Format to validate (default: latex)

Format Support

LaTeX (BibTeX)

• Manages references.bib file
• Generates \cite{} commands with appropriate keys
• Key naming: FirstAuthor:Year format (e.g., Vaswani:2017)

DOCX (Word Bibliography)

• Manages Word bibliography sources
• Generates Word citations
• Maintains citation consistency

BibTeX Entry Standards

Entry Type	Required Fields
@article	author, title, journal, year, volume
@inproceedings	author, title, booktitle, year
@book	author/editor, title, publisher, year

Examples

# Search for papers and add to bibliography
/manage-citations search "transformers attention" --format latex

# Search for DOCX citations
/manage-citations search "graph neural networks" --format docx

# Import from Zotero export
/manage-citations import zotero_export.bib --format latex

# Import from Mendeley
/manage-citations import mendeley_export.bib

# Validate bibliography
/manage-citations validate --format latex

Best Practices

1. Build bibliography early: Add citations before writing sections
2. Check for duplicates: Use validate to find duplicate entries
3. Consistent keys: Use FirstAuthor:Year format
4. Verify fields: Ensure all required fields are populated
5. Check DOIs: Include DOI/URLs where available

Key Naming Convention

Use FirstAuthor:Year format:

• Vaswani:2017 for "Attention is All You Need"
• Kipf:2017 for "Semi-Supervised Classification with GCN"
• Devlin:2019 for "BERT: Pre-training"

Integration with Writing

1. Search citations: Use manage-citations search to find papers
2. Verify entries: Check references.bib has entries
3. Write sections: Use write-section which will use keys from bibliography
4. Validate: Run manage-citations validate before final compilation

Scripts Used

• ./bib_manager.py - Bibliography management
• ./scholar_search.py - Paper search
• ./docx_citations.py - Word bibliography management

Platform Compatibility

Works on all platforms (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini, Cursor). Command syntax may vary by platform - see platform-specific documentation in docs/.