nature-citation

The nature-citation skill automates the process of adding rigorous academic citations to manuscript text by focusing exclusively on high-impact journals from Nature Portfolio, the AAAS Science family, and Cell Press. It takes long passages of scientific writing, intelligently segments them into citable units, and searches for supporting literature only from accepted flagship and subjournal titles within these three families. The skill enforces strict quality controls: it filters results by publication date range, validates sources against a curated journal scope, and never cites a paper without verifying its abstract or publisher page.

Key capabilities include multi-language support (English interface with Chinese query handling), automated text segmentation for optimal citation placement, conservative support evaluation to prevent weak citations, and direct export to reference management formats (EndNote/RIS/Zotero RDF). The skill uses a layered architecture with static core principles and dynamic routing, ensuring consistent application of citation standards across different usage scenarios. It can handle both short passages and long manuscripts through a specialized batching strategy, and provides detailed review artifacts showing the text-to-reference correspondence.

This skill is designed for academic researchers, manuscript authors, and scientific writers who need to add credible citations from top-tier journals to their work. It's particularly valuable when writing papers that require Nature/CNS-level support, when building reference lists for grant applications or review articles, or when working in bilingual research environments where queries need to be in English but user interaction can be in Chinese. The skill triggers on explicit requests like "add Nature citations" or "CNS references" as well as general academic writing needs such as "find literature support for this claim" or "add references while writing."