thesis-citation-extract

You can automate thesis citation extraction by running this Skill on your chapter files to cross-reference extracted citation keys with your canonical bibliography, catching broken references and missing entries before submission.

Yes, you need bash scripting and regex parsing knowledge to utilize this Skill, because it relies on these technical requirements to extract and verify IEEE citation formatting from your thesis documents.

The Skill processes thesis chapters and outputs three distinct buckets: matched citations, orphan-body citations found in text but missing from the bibliography, and orphan-bib entries listed but never cited.

This Skill is specifically designed for IEEE citation formatting and requires knowledge of its specific structure, meaning it is not suitable for verifying non-IEEE academic citation styles like APA or MLA.

The best way to verify bibliography integrity is to run the Skill with your chapter files directly from the thesis directory, allowing it to automatically extract and cross-reference all citation keys against the canonical bibliography.

You receive orphan-body and orphan-bib buckets because the Skill separates matched citations from broken references, identifying keys present in your thesis text but missing from the bibliography and vice versa.