Cite Placement — Development skill for Claude Code

cite-placement

A Claude Code skill that places pre-screened literature citations into a LaTeX or Word manuscript, restyles the citations already in one, or adds verified pinpoint page citations (pincites) to footnoted citations. A single Tkinter launcher selects the mode and its options.

Citation integrity — no fabricated references

This skill never invents citations. It works only with references the author has already gathered and screened:

• Placement draws exclusively from a user-supplied, pre-screened bibliography. The inline and footnote modes place citations only from the .xlsx spreadsheet of screened references you provide. The skill decides where an existing reference belongs; it has no path that conjures a new citation from the model's own memory.
• Every reference can be verified against authoritative databases. The optional verification pass (Phase 1.5) checks each reference against OpenAlex and CrossRef — with Google Scholar as an additional cross-check when a SEARCHAPI_API_KEY is set — and flags dangling citation keys and entries it cannot confirm.
• Restyling reformats; it does not re-source. When converting citations from one style to another, the skill rewrites formatting only and leaves case citations, legislation, and discursive footnotes untouched, so no substantive citation content is altered or introduced.
• Pincites are verbatim-or-nothing. The optional pincite pass writes a page number only when a verbatim quote from the acquired source text lands on a page map verified against the PDF's own printed folios. No quote match, or no verified map, means no pincite; an unpincited citation is a designed outcome, never an error, and the report says why.

Together these properties address the fabricated-citation risk that attends LLM-assisted writing: the bibliography is the author's, and the skill's role is placement and formatting rather than invention.

Overview

The skill has three mo