ieee-citation

ieee-citation is a skill for Claude Code from TenWalk/ieee-skills. It costs 140 tokens per session (982 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for formatting research references and in-text citations in IEEE style. IEEE style numbers sources in the order they first appear, rather than listing them alphabetically.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for converting references or DOI records into IEEE entries, preparing BibTeX files, numbering citations, abbreviating publication names, and adding index terms.
Why use it?
It helps clean up incomplete or inconsistent bibliographies without guessing missing publication details. It can also prepare the bibliography setup used by IEEEtran, an IEEE LaTeX document format.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the ieee-skills plugin — 11 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for converting references or DOI records into IEEE entries, preparing BibTeX files, numbering citations, abbreviating publication names, and adding index terms.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tenwalk/ieee-skills/ieee-citation
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 TenWalk/ieee-skills --skill ieee-citation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TenWalk/ieee-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ieee-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 140 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 982 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 $0.00140 $0.00982
Opus 5 $0.00070 $0.00491
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00196
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00098

Measured 11d ago against content hash e643b29c6ed8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ieee-citation 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.

ieee-skills-claude/skills/ieee-citation/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

IEEE Citation and Reference Formatting

Use this skill to turn raw references, a .bib file, DOIs, or a messy bibliography into correct IEEE-style entries and in-text citations, and to set up Index Terms and the IEEEtran bibliography.

Core stance

  • Never fabricate metadata. Do not invent a DOI, volume, issue, page range, year, or venue. If a field is missing, output [MISSING: volume] (or similar) and ask the user, or leave the BibTeX field empty rather than guessing.
  • Order by first appearance, not alphabetically. IEEE numbers references [1], [2], ... in the order they are first cited in the text; the reference list follows that same order.
  • Abbreviate journal and conference names per IEEE (e.g., IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine IntelligenceIEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.). If unsure of an abbreviation, flag it rather than inventing one.
  • Defer to the target journal's Author Kit where it differs (some allow DOIs, some omit them; some want month, some do not).

When to open extra files

File Open when
references/ieee-reference-format.md Formatting any reference entry (journal, conference, book, chapter, thesis, online, standard, patent, preprint) or in-text citations
references/ieeetran-latex.md Setting up IEEEtran: \bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}, .bib entry types/fields, \cite usage, Index Terms, EDICS, common BibTeX pitfalls

Quick rules (most common needs)

  • In-text: square brackets, on the line (not superscript): "as shown in [3]". Group as "[1], [2]" or a range "[4]–[7]". Cite in numerical order at each point.
  • Do not use the number as a noun: prefer "the method of [12]" / "Smith et al. [12]" over "in [12], they...".
  • Author names: initials then surname — "J. K. Author". Up to six names; for more, list the first followed by "et al.".
  • One reference = one list entry, numbered in brackets, hanging indent in IEEEtran (automatic).

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 67 lines · 140 tokens per session scan A e643b29c6ed8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ieee-citation is a skill published in the GitHub repository TenWalk/ieee-skills (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 140 tokens to every session and 982 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-31.