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Citation Formatting
A guide on designing and implementing a citation system for LLM responses, covering the selection of citable units, material representation, prompt engineering for citation instructions, and parsing strategies.
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Citation Formatting
A guide on designing and implementing a citation system for LLM responses, covering the selection of citable units, material representation, prompt engineering for citation instructions, and parsing strategies.
When To Use
Use when you need to implement a system that allows an AI model to provide verifiable references to source documents or retrieved text chunks.
Reference Files
| File | Contains | Use For |
|---|---|---|
SKILL.md | Entry point: scope, routing table, and workflow. | Start here. |
docs/citation-formatting-workflow-guide.md | A guide detailing how to prepare citable material and instruct models to format citations effectively. | Questions about a guide detailing how to prepare citable material and instruct models to format citations effectively. |
examples/citation-formatting-openai-citation-formatting-marker-syntax.text | A text example demonstrating the specific syntax for citation markers including start, delimiter, and stop tokens used in OpenAI documentation. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A text example demonstrating the specific syntax for citation markers including start, delimiter, and stop tokens use... |
examples/citation-formatting-openai-citation-formatting-syntax-template.text | A text template demonstrating the specific syntax and delimiters required for OpenAI citation formatting. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A text template demonstrating the specific syntax and delimiters required for OpenAI citation formatting. |
examples/citation-formatting-openai-citation-formatting-syntax.text | A text example demonstrating the specific syntax and delimiters used for citation formatting in OpenAI API responses. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A text example demonstrating the specific syntax and delimiters used for citation formatting in OpenAI API responses. |
examples/citation-formatting-openai-citation-formatting-syntax-2.text | A text example demonstrating the specific syntax for citation start, delimiter, and stop markers used in OpenAI citations. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A text example demonstrating the specific syntax for citation start, delimiter, and stop markers used in OpenAI citat... |
examples/citation-formatting-openai-citation-formatting-markdown.md | A markdown example demonstrating how to format citations and reference source IDs from tool outputs. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A markdown example demonstrating how to format citations and reference source IDs from tool outputs. |
examples/citation-formatting-openai-citation-formatting-syntax-3.text | A text example demonstrating the specific syntax required for citing tool results using citation markers. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A text example demonstrating the specific syntax required for citing tool results using citation markers. |
examples/citation-formatting-openai-citation-formatting.xml | An XML example demonstrating the structure and implementation of citation formatting guidelines for model responses. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in An XML example demonstrating the structure and implementation of citation formatting guidelines for model responses. |
examples/citation-formatting-openai-citation-formatting-marker-syntax-2.text | A text example demonstrating the specific syntax for citation markers including start, delimiter, and stop tags. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A text example demonstrating the specific syntax for citation markers including start, delimiter, and stop tags. |
examples/citation-formatting-openai-citation-formatting-marker-syntax-3.text | A text example demonstrating the specific syntax for citation markers including start, delimiter, and stop tags. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A text example demonstrating the specific syntax for citation markers including start, delimiter, and stop tags. |
examples/citation-formatting-openai-citation-formatting-markdown-2.md | A markdown example demonstrating how to format citations using source reference IDs like turn0file0. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A markdown example demonstrating how to format citations using source reference IDs like turn0file0. |
examples/citation-formatting-openai-citation-formatting.text | A text example demonstrating the syntax for inline citations within a response. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A text example demonstrating the syntax for inline citations within a response. |
examples/citation-formatting-openai-citation-formatting-2.xml | An XML representation of text content containing specific citation formatting markers for the OpenAI platform. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in An XML representation of text content containing specific citation formatting markers for the OpenAI platform. |
examples/citation-formatting-openai-citation-formatting-markdown-3.md | A markdown example demonstrating how to use citable unit IDs within a prompt to support citation formatting. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A markdown example demonstrating how to use citable unit IDs within a prompt to support citation formatting. |
examples/citation-formatting-openai-citation-formatting-2.text | A text file demonstrating the syntax for embedding citations within a string using special unicode markers. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A text file demonstrating the syntax for embedding citations within a string using special unicode markers. |
What This Skill Covers
- Reliable citations build trust and help readers verify the accuracy of responses. This guide provides practical guidance on how to prepare citable material a...
- Main sections:
Overview,Choose citable units,Represent citable material,Define citation format,Template.
Workflow
- Open the most relevant file under
docs/for the exact documented workflow and wording. - Open
schemas/files for exact structured contracts. - Open
examples/files for concrete requests, commands, snippets, and manifests. - Do not add behavior or configuration that is not present in the attached source files.
Canonical source: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/citation-formatting.md