validate-bib

To check for missing citations in your LaTeX bibliography, run a structural audit to detect cited works missing from the bibliography, unused entries, and malformed fields. It scans .tex and .md manuscript files and generates a structural report.

Yes, you can verify DOIs in your Markdown manuscript bibliography by requesting a semantic check. This process normalizes DOIs, checks citation-style consistency, and generates a semantic audit report.

The best way to find unused bibliography entries in a paper is to perform a structural check on your manuscript sources. This audit identifies bibliography items that are never cited in the text and reports them for cleanup.

Yes, bibliography validation works with Quarto (.qmd) files. The audit supports Markdown (.md/.qmd) and LaTeX (.tex) manuscript sources, performing structural and semantic checks on citations and bibliography entries.

To audit citation-style consistency across multiple manuscript files, run a semantic check on your LaTeX or Markdown sources. This verifies DOIs and evaluates citation-style uniformity, generating a report in the session-reports directory.

The bibliography audit report gets saved to the .claude/session-reports directory. It generates a structured Markdown file named bib_audit_[structural|semantic].md depending on the type of check performed.