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 working with references, BibTeX, or citations.

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) Reports: missing citations, unused bib entries, duplicate keys, duplicate sections, duplicate labels, undefined references, missing figures. Generate BibTeX from paper database Search for a specific paper to add Harvest missing citations automatically 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 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](../literature search/), [deep research](../deep research/) Downstream: [paper compilation](../paper compilation/), [latex formatting](../latex formatting/) See also: [related work writing](../related work writing/)

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