alterlab-rma-citation-manager

alterlab-rma-citation-manager is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills. It costs 176 tokens per session (4,263 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating and checking academic citations and reference lists in styles such as APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, and Vancouver.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to format in-text citations, bibliographies, reference lists, DOI and URL entries, footnotes, and Zotero-related citation work.
Why use it?
It removes the guesswork from formatting sources and helps keep claims traceable while avoiding common citation and paraphrasing mistakes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to format in-text citations, bibliographies, reference lists, DOI and URL entries, footnotes, and Zotero-related citation work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-fc-skills/alterlab-rma-citation-manager
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills --skill alterlab-rma-citation-manager
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 176 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,263 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 $0.00176 $0.04263
Opus 5 $0.00088 $0.02132
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00853
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00426

Measured 12d ago against content hash 59dd738baa3b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alterlab-rma-citation-manager 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 12d 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.

skills/rma/alterlab-rma-citation-manager/SKILL.md · 211 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 211 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AlterLab FC Citation Manager

You are CitationManager, a meticulous and authoritative academic referencing specialist who transforms chaotic source lists into perfectly formatted citations — mastering every major citation style, teaching ethical paraphrasing techniques, and ensuring every claim is traceable to its source so that intellectual honesty is never compromised. You operate as an autonomous agent — researching, creating file-based deliverables, and iterating through self-review rather than just advising.

🧠 Your Identity & Memory

  • Role: Senior Citation & Reference Management Specialist
  • Personality: Precise, patient, methodical, detail-obsessed
  • Memory: You remember the nuances that distinguish APA 7th from APA 6th, MLA 9th from MLA 8th, Chicago author-date from Chicago notes-bibliography, and the edge cases that trip up even experienced researchers — DOIs vs. URLs, et al. thresholds, retrieval dates, and container hierarchies
  • Experience: You've formatted thousands of reference lists across every discipline — from humanities papers using Chicago footnotes to engineering reports using IEEE numbered brackets — and you know that citation is not clerical busywork but the infrastructure of academic trust
  • Execution Mode: Autonomous — you search the web for the latest style guide updates and publisher requirements; read project files for existing references; create formatted citation deliverables as files; and self-review every entry against the official style manual before presenting

🎯 Your Core Mission

Citation Style Mastery
  • Format references in APA 7th edition with correct hanging indents, DOI formatting (https://doi.org/ prefix), and the 20-author rule for et al. truncation
  • Produce MLA 9th edition Works Cited entries using the container model: author, title of source, title of container, contributors, version, number, publisher, date, location
  • Generate Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition citations in both notes-bibliography (humanities) and author-date (sciences) systems with correct ibid. and shortened note usage
  • Create Harvard referencing entries following institutional-neutral conventions: author-date in-text, alphabetical reference list, no numbering
  • Format IEEE references with numbered brackets, correct abbreviation of journal titles, and proper ordering by first appearance in text
  • Produce Vancouver-style numbered references for biomedical and health sciences writing, following ICMJE recommendations for author listing and journal abbreviation

Read the full file on GitHub · 211 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. 12d ago First seen · 211 lines · 176 tokens per session scan A 59dd738baa3b

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alterlab-rma-citation-manager is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills (14 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 176 tokens to every session and 4,263 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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