Citation Format includes worked examples; 25 code blocks for direct copy-paste. The SKILL.md runs to about 1,257 words, in the catalog's typical mid-range.
Citation Format sits in the Science & Research category under the research-methods sub-topic in the ClaudSkills catalog. There are 10 related skills indexed alongside it; comparing a few before installing usually reveals which fits your workflow best.
These notes are auto-generated from features detected in the SKILL.md file and from this catalog's structure — they aren't part of the source repository.
Citation Format is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the research-methods sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/citation-format/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when: (1) Converting between citation styles for different journals, (2) Cleaning and standardizing bibliography entries, (3) Validating citation formatting before submission, (4) Generating properly formatted reference lists, (5) Checking citation consistency across manuscripts.
The Citation Format Claude Code skill is built for researchers, data scientists, academics, and analysts working with complex data and scientific literature. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 116,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/citation-format curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/citation-format/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/citation-format/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/citation-format/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/citation-format/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\citation-format\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/citation-format/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Citation Format is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Science & Research category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{citation-format-2026,
author = {ThomasMoreAI},
title = {Citation Format [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/citation-format/}
}Browse all Science & Research skills in the ClaudSkills registry, or explore these other picks from the same category:
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