Bibliography Validator
Validates academic bibliography entries against citations in LaTeX and Quarto files to ensure reference integrity.
The Bibliography Validator is a specialized Claude Code skill designed for researchers and educators to maintain the integrity of academic citations. It automates the tedious process of cross-referencing citation keys found in LaTeX (.tex) and Quarto (.qmd) files against a central BibTeX bibliography. By identifying missing references, unused entries, and potential typos in citation keys, this skill prevents common publication errors. Additionally, it performs a quality audit on your .bib file to ensure required fields like author, title, and year are properly formatted and present.
Key Features
01Audits entry quality for missing metadata fields and encoding issues
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03Cross-references LaTeX (\cite, \citep) and Quarto (@key) citation styles
04Identifies missing bibliography entries used in documents but not defined
05Flags unused references in the .bib file for easy cleanup
06Detects potential typos by matching similar-but-different citation keys
Use Cases
01Cleaning up legacy bibliography files by removing uncited or redundant entries
02Auditing collaborative research projects to ensure citation consistency across multiple authors
03Finalizing academic papers and lecture slides for submission or presentation