Citation and Reference Editing with Consistency Control
This is a ready-made prompt from the Zayenha Prompt library in Translation & Editing, written for claude-sonnet-4-7. It has a main prompt to copy into the model, built-in quality guards, and a verification prompt to run in a second window to review the answer. The full text needs the Pro plan; the description is open to all.
For researchers and academic editors: editing citations and references in a chosen style (APA/MLA/Chicago), enforcing consistency and matching in-text citations to the list, without inventing sources.
Your current plan: free
Formatting a PhD thesis reference list in APA; matching a paper's citations to its list before peer review; unifying citation style in a mixed-reference article.
Built-in quality guards
No fabricating author, year, publisher, page, or DOI to complete a reference
Strict adherence to the requested citation style without mixing styles
Matching every citation to the list in both directions without omission
Referring source existence and data accuracy to the researcher from the original
Frequently asked questions
How do I use this prompt?
Copy the main prompt and paste it into claude-sonnet-4-7 or the model you use, replace what is in square brackets with your details, then run the verification prompt in a second window with the answer pasted in, and review it before relying on it.
Is this prompt free?
Its full text requires the Pro plan or higher. Free prompts you can copy at once without an account are on the ready-made Arabic prompts page.
Which model was this prompt written for?
It was written for claude-sonnet-4-7 and follows how that model works; you can run it on other models too, reviewing the result, since no single wording guarantees the best result on every model.