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citesure init: start the paper with a citation integrity gate

A developer released Citesure, a tool that creates a citation integrity gate for academic papers by generating a repository with pre-commit hooks and GitHub Actions workflows. The tool validates bibliography entries against 55 discipline-specific packs, achieving 256/256 integrity and 209/209 claim pairs in testing.

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Most bibliography failures show up the night before arXiv or the journal deadline: placeholder DOIs, year pasted into volume=

, inverted page ranges, invented case reporters. The fix is a paper repo that fails closed from day one.

pip install https://github.com/SybilGambleyyu/citesure/releases/download/v0.5.68/citesure-0.5.68-py3-none-any.whl

citesure init my-paper
cd my-paper
citesure gate . --preset ci
citesure gate . --preset arxiv

citesure init

writes refs.bib

, pre-commit hooks (gate --preset ci

  • soft-lint), .github/workflows/citesure.yml

, and a short CITESURE.md

for coauthors. Empty bibliographies skip hard-ID floors until entries appear.

url=

Fifty-five live-clean packs (demography, sociology, political science, anthropology, ML, law, ecology, …):

citesure packs --gate-all
citesure packs --run anthropology-classics

Evidence: 256/256 integrity · 209/209 claim pairs · 55 packs.

Source: github.com/SybilGambleyyu/citesure · Demo: citesure.sybilgambleyyu.workers.dev

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