cite-master

cite-master — citations, consistently

Knowledge source

Authoritative formatting and Sefaria-API-mapping data lives in the CandleKeep book "Hebrew Linguistic Reference", chapter hebrew-citation-conventions. Read at activation:

ck items read cmomjonvy0fdmk30zwef79c48 --chapter hebrew-citation-conventions

The chapter contains: Chicago-Hebrew + APA-Hebrew formats with examples; Hazal patterns for Tanakh / Bavli / Yerushalmi / Midrash / Rambam / Shulchan Arukh / responsa; and — critically — the sefaria_normalized form for each pattern, which is what to pass to mcp__claude_ai_Sefaria__get_text (e.g., traditional בבלי ברכות י, ע"ב → API Berakhot 10b). Source on GitHub: yodem/hebrew-linguistics-data.

When to invoke

• Linguistic-editor finishes a chapter that contains citations.
• Proofreader is doing pass 1 and finds an unfamiliar citation format.
• User runs /proof on a chapter with footnotes.

Supported citation styles

The skill reads book.yaml:

citation_style: chicago-author-date  # | apa | hazal | mixed

Style	Use for
chicago-author-date	Hebrew academic philosophy, history, social science. Default.
apa	Hebrew popular psychology, applied science.
hazal	Hebrew religious primary sources — formatted inline by this skill, with each reference verified against Sefaria.
mixed	Books that span multiple registers. Author specifies a per-chapter override.

Chicago Author-Date — Hebrew conventions

In-text: (שמיר 2018, 47) or (Levinas 1961, 197) for foreign-language sources.

Bibliography:

שמיר, אילן. 2018. *הסדר החדש*. ירושלים: מאגנס.
Levinas, Emmanuel. 1961. *Totalité et infini*. La Haye: Nijhoff.

Hebrew rules:

• Author name in first-name-then-family-name order in the in-text citation, but family-name-comma-first-name in the bibliography (Hebrew convention follows English Chicago here).
• Italics use *...* in the source markdown — the typesetting agent converts to true italics later.
• Hebrew dates are NOT converted to Hebrew calendar in citations. Use Gregorian.
• Foreign-language titles stay in their original alphabet, italicised.

APA — Hebrew conventions

In-text: (שמיר, 2018, ע' 47).

Bibliography:

שמיר, א' (2018). *הסדר החדש*. הוצאת מאגנס.

Hazal — inline routine

For tractate references, midrash, scripture, Rambam, Shulchan Arukh, responsa: this skill formats and verifies them directly. No external skill is invoked.

Recognised patterns

• (בבלי ברכות י, ע"ב)
• (ירושלמי שבת ב, ג)
• (מדרש רבה, בראשית פרשה ב, ה)
• (רמב"ם, הלכות תשובה ג, ב)
• (שולחן ערוך, אורח חיים סימן א)
• Tanakh: (בראשית א, א) / (תהילים קיט, יח)

Format rules

• Always Hebrew, traditional reference order: source → tractate/sefer → chapter → page or halacha.
• Use ע"א / ע"ב for Babylonian Talmud daf-side, with quotation marks (not straight ASCII apostrophe).
• Use a space-comma between chapter and verse: בראשית א, א.
• Italicise nothing — Hazal references are by convention plain.

Verification — Sefaria MCP

For every Hazal-style reference detected, call mcp__claude_ai_Sefaria__get_text with the reference string normalised to Sefaria's API form (e.g., "Berakhot 10b", "Genesis 1:1"). Three outcomes:

1. Sefaria returns the text → reference is valid; leave alone.
2. Sefaria returns 404 / no result → tag the in-text reference with [UNVERIFIED] so the author can fix it manually.
3. Sefaria returns text but the manuscript's quoted Hebrew differs significantly → flag in CITATION_REPORT.md under "primary-source quote drift".

Do not auto-correct primary-source quotes. The author may have intentionally bracketed an emendation. The skill's job is to flag, not to rewrite.

What this skill validates

For each citation in the manuscript:

1. Does it follow the declared style?
2. Are all required fields present?
3. Does the bibliography contain a matching entry?
4. Are author names spelled identically across in-text and bibliography?
5. Are dates consistent?
6. Are page ranges formatted with the right separator (Chicago: 45–67, APA: 45-67)?

Output

A CITATION_REPORT.md:

Total citations: 142
Bibliography entries: 138
Orphans (cited but not in bib): 4
Unused (in bib but not cited): 0
Style violations: 7 (see below)
Hazal references verified via Sefaria: 23 (1 [UNVERIFIED])

Followed by a numbered list of violations with page references.

Hard rules

• Never silently rewrite. Always flag and let the human approve.
• Mixed styles are fine within mixed mode — a philosophy book with religious primary sources should use Chicago for academic refs and Hazal for primary religious refs in the same footnote.
• Author spelling consistency. Compare every author surname across in-text + bibliography. Even one-character drift gets flagged.