Flagship
Every CitationLab post tagged flagship. This topic runs through several posts across the blog — case files where it caused a real problem, and guides for handling it in your own reference list.
Match 10 — what the first ten pairs tell you, and what they don't
The first ten matched pairs are free. A sample of ten answers one question about a reference list well, hints at a second, and structurally cannot answer the third — which is the one most people assume it covers.
REFerence [IN]tegrity for universities — the check that stopped running
Every thesis is screened for plagiarism. Nobody checks whether its references resolve. Why the check stopped, what AI did to the problem, and which units inside a university already own the work.
Ref[In] — naming the thing a citation check is actually for
Every tool describes an action: run a check. REFerence [IN]tegrity names the property a check is for — three claims about your document, and a ledger that has to balance.
The seven steps of a Ref[In] annotation
Annotation runs as seven stages in a fixed order, on a frozen session, by one worker — and it will not begin until the ledger balances. What each stage produces, and why every constraint was added after something went wrong without it.