citation-formats

citation-formats is a skill for Claude Code from Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar. It costs 103 tokens per session (1,803 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference guide for formatting sources and in-text citations in academic and engineering writing. It covers styles such as APA, IEEE, ASCE, Chicago, Harvard, and Vancouver, along with BibTeX and reference-manager details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose a citation style, format journal references, handle DOIs and BibTeX entries, and adapt sources to a publication's requirements.
Why use it?
It helps avoid inconsistent citations and incorrect reference details when preparing papers for different journals or publishers.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the aec-scholar plugin — 11 skills, 36 commands, 10 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to choose a citation style, format journal references, handle DOIs and BibTeX entries, and adapt sources to a publication's requirements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/abhinavbwj/aec-scholar/citation-formats
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar --skill citation-formats
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aec-scholar, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 36 commands, 10 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,803 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00103 $0.01803
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00901
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00361
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00180

Measured 11d ago against content hash 1da7d9662f24, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

citation-formats scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

aec-scholar/skills/citation-formats/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Citation Formats — Reference

Format references correctly and consistently for AEC/engineering venues. Always match the target venue's required style; when unknown, ask or default to the publisher's author guidelines. Never invent a DOI, author, year, or page range — if a detail is unknown, leave a clearly marked placeholder for the user to verify against the source.

1. Style selection by venue family

  • ASCE journalsASCE author–date style.
  • Elsevier AEC journals (Automation in Construction, Energy and Buildings, etc.) → usually numbered (Elsevier "num" / Vancouver-like) or APA-like depending on journal — check the specific journal.
  • IEEE venuesIEEE numbered.
  • Taylor & Francis / Emerald (management venues) → often APA or Harvard.
  • Springer → journal-specific (often a "Basic"/numbered or APA-like style).
  • When in doubt, use the journal's downloadable EndNote/CSL style or BibTeX .bst file.

2. Quick patterns (journal article)

APA 7th (author–date): In-text: (Smith & Lee, 2021) or Smith and Lee (2021); 3+ authors → (Smith et al., 2021). Reference: Smith, A. B., & Lee, C. D. (2021). Title of the article in sentence case. Journal Name in Title Case, 12(3), 145–168. https://doi.org/10.xxxx/xxxx

IEEE (numbered): In-text: … as shown in [3]. Reference: [3] A. B. Smith and C. D. Lee, "Title of the article," Journal Name Abbrev., vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 145–168, 2021, doi: 10.xxxx/xxxx.

ASCE (author–date): In-text: (Smith and Lee 2021). Reference: Smith, A. B., and C. D. Lee. 2021. "Title of the article." J. Constr. Eng. Manage. 12 (3): 145–168. https://doi.org/10.xxxx/xxxx. (ASCE uses official journal abbreviations, issue in parentheses, colon before page range.)

Chicago author–date: Smith, Alan B., and Carol D. Lee. 2021. "Title of the Article." Journal Name 12 (3): 145–68.

Harvard (generic): Smith, A.B. and Lee, C.D. (2021) 'Title of the article', Journal Name, 12(3), pp. 145–168.

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 120 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 1da7d9662f24

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citation-formats is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar (18 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 1,803 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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