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name: Citation Management
description: Track sources from day one.
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# Citation Management

Citations added at the end are wrong, missing, or fabricated under time pressure. Track them as you write and you can defend every claim.

## Habits
- **Capture the source the moment you use it.** Paste the BibTeX / DOI / URL into your reference manager with the note, not later.
- **One source of truth.** A reference manager (Zotero, etc.), not a folder of PDFs with cryptic names.
- **Cite as you write.** Insert the citation when you make the claim. Reconstructing them at the end is when errors enter.
- **Verify each link still resolves.** Link rot is real; capture DOIs or archived versions (archive.org) for anything critical.