reference-audit-guide

Verify that cited references actually exist and that their metadata matches, using the runnable scripts this skill ships for CrossRef, Semantic Scholar, arXiv, and PubMed. Use when the bibliography must be checked against live sources rather than inspected locally: detecting fabricated or hallucinated citations, confirming that DOIs resolve, and matching title, authors, venue, and year against the record. Also covers the underlying verification principles and reference-audit best practices. For an offline hygiene pass over a .bib or .tex file, run citation-verifier first; for whether a real source supports the sentence citing it, run claim-source-verification.