Citation Tracker

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name: Citation Tracker
description: Verify and format citations across APA, MLA, Chicago, and IEEE styles.
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# Citation Tracker

Ensure every citation is accurate, complete, and correctly formatted for the requested
style. Accuracy comes before formatting — a beautifully formatted wrong citation is
still wrong.

## 1. Confirm the target style
Ask which style applies if not stated: APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago (notes-bibliography or
author-date), or IEEE. Each has distinct rules; never mix styles in one document.

## 2. Gather the required elements
For each source identify: author(s), year/date, title, container (journal/book/site),
volume/issue, pages, publisher, DOI/URL, and access date if needed. Missing an element
is a flag, not something to invent.

## 3. Verify before formatting
- Check that the DOI resolves and matches the cited title.
- Confirm author names and publication year against the source.
- Watch for retracted or predatory-journal sources and flag them.
- Ensure every in-text citation has a matching reference-list entry and vice versa.… install to load the full skill