Citation Manager

Check a .bib file for common issues:

python .claude/skills/citation-manager/scripts/validate_citations.py references.bib

Checks for:

• Missing required fields
• Invalid DOIs
• Duplicate entries
• Inconsistent formatting

BibTeX Entry Types

Conference Paper (@inproceedings)

@inproceedings{author2024keyword,
  title     = {Full Paper Title Here},
  author    = {Last, First and Last2, First2 and Last3, First3},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Conference Name},
  year      = {2024},
  pages     = {1--10},
  doi       = {10.1234/example},
}

Required: title, author, booktitle, year Optional: pages, doi, url, volume

Journal Article (@article)

@article{author2024keyword,
  title   = {Full Article Title Here},
  author  = {Last, First and Last2, First2},
  journal = {Journal Name},
  year    = {2024},
  volume  = {42},
  number  = {3},
  pages   = {100--115},
  doi     = {10.1234/example},
}

Required: title, author, journal, year Optional: volume, number, pages, doi

arXiv Preprint (@misc)

@misc{author2024keyword,
  title         = {Full Paper Title Here},
  author        = {Last, First and Last2, First2},
  year          = {2024},
  eprint        = {2401.12345},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass  = {cs.CL},
}

Required: title, author, year, eprint Optional: archiveprefix, primaryclass

Book (@book)

@book{author2024keyword,
  title     = {Book Title},
  author    = {Last, First},
  publisher = {Publisher Name},
  year      = {2024},
  address   = {City},
}

Required: title, author/editor, publisher, year Optional: address, edition, volume

Citation Key Conventions

Format: authorYEARkeyword

Examples:

• vaswani2017attention - Vaswani et al., 2017, "Attention Is All You Need"
• brown2020language - Brown et al., 2020, GPT-3 paper
• devlin2019bert - Devlin et al., 2019, BERT paper

Rules:

• Lowercase first author's last name
• Four-digit year
• Meaningful keyword from title (lowercase)
• No spaces, hyphens, or special characters

Common Venue Abbreviations

Conferences

Journals

Workflow

Building references.bib

1. Collect DOIs: As you read papers, collect DOIs
2. Convert: Use doi_to_bibtex.py to convert
3. Validate: Run validate_citations.py to check
4. Organize: Sort alphabetically by key
5. Integrate: Add to paper/references.bib

Citing in LaTeX

% Parenthetical citation
Previous work has explored this \cite{author2024keyword}.

% Textual citation (requires natbib)
\citet{author2024keyword} showed that...

% Multiple citations
Several studies \cite{paper1,paper2,paper3} found...

Troubleshooting

DOI Not Found

• Check DOI is correct (no typos)
• Try CrossRef directly: https://doi.org/[DOI]
• For arXiv, use arXiv ID instead

Missing Fields

• Check original source for info
• Some fields are optional (add if available)
• Don't leave required fields empty

Duplicate Keys

• Use more specific keywords
• Add first name initial: smithj2024keyword
• Add venue: smith2024keywordneurips

References

See references/ folder for:

• citation_styles.md: Style guide for different formats