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Reconcile In-Text Citation Keys With Bibliography Entries

A citation can be well formatted yet point to no bibliography entry. Count uses and entries under your own stable source keys to expose missing, uncited and duplicate identities before polishing style.

1 · stable source key | in-text uses counted | bibliography entries counted

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HYPOTHESIS / PROTOTYPE — checkout unavailable. Calculation is local. A draft is saved automatically in this browser profile when storage is available; Reset to sample clears it. Optional Pro history stores only five summaries and has its own deletion control. State links encode your inputs and can remain in browser history, clipboard or recipients’ records; share only non-sensitive rows. Optional external AI formatting leaves this device. The required site analytics beacon reports page activity; shared URLs contain encoded inputs. Do not treat an encoded URL as private. The calculator has no input-collection endpoint.

Data note: The citation-key matrix processes stable source key | in-text uses counted | bibliography entries counted locally. Starter/sample selection and Run compute in this tab; no input is sent by the calculator. A local draft may be saved; explicit state-link sharing or optional external AI formatting can disclose inputs. Use non-sensitive labels.

Perspective: Before: polished citation style could hide a missing source identity. After: repeated uses, missing entries and duplicate keys are separate count questions.

2 · Read the citation-key matrix

Citation-count reconciliation only, not source verification, plagiarism detection, grading or editorial approval. It does not inspect the manuscript or decide whether an uncited reading list is permitted. Check actual source identities and assignment requirements with an instructor or editor before submitting a document.

Optional filing controls are a local prototype.

Checkout is unavailable. The reading above is complete; print, CSV and five local summaries are optional enhancements, not hidden answers.

Before using the citation-key matrix

Build a stable key list from the actual sources before counting. A key can be a private shorthand such as Rivera2023, but two different works by the same author and year need distinct keys in your working list. This tool does not parse a manuscript, citation manager export or bibliography file. Human counts are explicit so a learner can reproduce why a row is marked. The usual one-entry setting is an entered convention, not an enforcement of a particular style guide. Some assignments legitimately use an uncited reading list; a flagged unused key is then a question to resolve with the assignment instructions. The matrix is useful after drafting because citations and references often drift apart during edits, while a polished formatting pass can make that structural mismatch harder to notice.

Boundary and sources

Citation-count reconciliation only, not source verification, plagiarism detection, grading or editorial approval. It does not inspect the manuscript or decide whether an uncited reading list is permitted. Check actual source identities and assignment requirements with an instructor or editor before submitting a document.

Mechanism: competence-autonomy-loop

Optional AI formatting, never the calculation

Manual entry completes this citation-key matrix for free without signup. If available to you, the free AI Studio interface linked in the sources may format fictional or non-sensitive notes; external access may require an account. No API key or AI call is built into this tool. Free-tier content may be used to improve products. Review each cell and transcribe it to the labeled row schema; do not paste the JSON object into the row box.

Format only these fictional or non-sensitive notes for a citation-key matrix. Return strict JSON shaped as {"rows": [{"label": "string", "cells": ["string", "string"]}], "setting": "string"}. The columns are stable source key | in-text uses counted | bibliography entries counted; the setting is Expected bibliography entries per cited key. Keep all supplied strings and quantities exactly; do not calculate, infer missing entries, invent dates or add advice. If any required value is missing, return an empty rows array and ask me for it separately. I will verify every cell against my source and manually transcribe rows using vertical bars before running the local calculator.

An AI response is not executed, fetched or trusted as a result. Missing values remain questions; the strict local parser checks the rows you actually enter.