citation-finder

What This Skill Does

The citation-finder skill is a powerful research utility designed to streamline the academic writing process. It functions as an intelligent agent capable of locating, validating, and formatting academic papers into professional citation styles. By accepting fuzzy titles or partial descriptions in both English and Chinese, the agent queries an array of high-authority academic databases, including CrossRef, Semantic Scholar, Baidu Scholar, and CNKI. Once a candidate is identified, the skill automatically generates formatted references according to three industry-standard formats: GB/T 7714 (common in Chinese academic institutions), APA 7th Edition, and MLA 9th Edition. Beyond mere formatting, the skill ensures high accuracy by ranking search results based on title similarity and metadata completeness, providing direct links to the DOI or source URL to ensure your bibliography remains verifiable and professional.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your OpenClaw environment, ensure you have the necessary dependencies installed (requests, beautifulsoup4, and rapidfuzz). You can install the skill by executing the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/antonia-sz/citation-finder Ensure that your OpenClaw runtime has appropriate internet permissions, as the skill relies on external academic API calls and web scraping to retrieve real-time data.

Use Cases

This skill is ideal for researchers, students, and technical writers who need to manage large bibliographies quickly. It is particularly useful when you have only a vague idea of a paper's name or need to switch between different citation formats for submissions to various journals or academic conferences. It eliminates the tedious manual effort of looking up publication dates, authors, and page numbers.

Example Prompts

1. "帮我找一下『注意力机制在自然语言处理中的应用』这篇论文，并提供APA格式引用。"
2. "Find citation for 'Attention is all you need' and output it in MLA 9th format."
3. "请找到这篇论文的准确信息，并帮我生成GB/T 7714标准的参考文献引用。"

Tips & Limitations

• Ambiguity Handling: If the skill returns multiple results due to a vague query, it will ask for clarification. Providing the author's name alongside the title significantly improves accuracy.
• Database Coverage: While the skill covers both Chinese and English sources, extremely obscure or non-indexed papers might result in low confidence scores.
• Internet Connectivity: Because the skill performs live lookups, it requires an active network connection to function properly. Avoid modifying the underlying scripts/ to ensure the integrity of the formatting logic remains consistent.