Citations lost after conversion? Compare the bibliography
Give a text AI a draft, bibliography and target format to draft a before-and-after citation checklist for human review. This is a drafting exercise; the source used Cursor.
Execution environment and usage
AI / software
General text chat (example: Claude)
Where to operate
A general text-AI conversation; for example, a new chat on the Claude website where available. This is a text exercise, not an agent run.
Getting started
- Open an authorized text-chat tool; Claude’s web entry is claude.ai.
- Paste the relevant text from a draft, bibliography and target format and the prompt below; request a before-and-after citation checklist.
Setup and plan requirements
Prepare shareable, de-identified a draft, bibliography and target format; paste only relevant excerpts. An available chat account and allowance are needed; Claude also has location and age requirements. This exercise needs no connector or execution permission from the original source workflow. The chat can produce the text draft. Any later checks of actual files, screens, audio or test results require a person, suitable software and existing outputs. Mark checks unverified when those outputs are absent.
Prompt portability limits
Questions and supplied text can be adapted to another capable chat tool. This produces a draft, not file access, code execution, account connections or the original operational outcome.
Usage limitations
The source reports Cursor. This page adapts it into a before-and-after citation checklist, not a completed automated workflow in that product. Follow the checks below; source outcomes do not establish this exercise’s results.
Environment sources
適用情境 / When to use
Give a text AI a draft, bibliography and target format to draft a before-and-after citation checklist for human review. This is a drafting exercise; the source used Cursor. The post reports working citations after conversion.
步驟 / Steps
- Prepare a shareable draft, verified bibliography and target-format requirements.
- Map citation keys to references and specify information that must survive conversion.
- Spot-check in-text citations, bibliography, special characters and editable fields.
提示詞 / Prompt
Plan citation checks for converting [Markdown draft/bibliography] to [target format]. Verify key existence, author-year agreement and editable output fields. Separately identify claims requiring source-support review. Preserve originals; do not install converters, submit papers or invent references.
留意事項 / Cautions
- Do not invent references or infer full-paper conclusions from abstracts.
- Follow institutional AI-writing requirements.
來源限制 / Evidence limits
Conversion was not independently tested; functional citation fields do not prove a source supports a claim.
流程說明 / Workflow note
These steps and prompts are original, untested exercises by this site, not the author’s verbatim workflow. Reported results do not guarantee exercise outcomes.
原始工具組合 / Original tool stack
Cursor; Markdown; Zotero; Better BibTeX; pandoc; custom pandoc Lua filter
Source publication date: 2026-01-14
Source checked: 2026-10-20