From science-skills
Converts reference lists to Science (AAAS) numbered style with italic numbers, full author lists, abbreviated journal titles, and continuous numbering for main text and supplementary materials.
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/science-skills:sci-citationThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- References are in author–date (APA/Harvard) or Nature style and must become Science style.
A. B. Author, C. D. Author, E. F. Author, Title of the article. *Journal Abbrev.* **Volume**, page (year).A. B. Author, *Book Title* (Publisher, ed., year), pp. xx–yy.A. B. Author, in *Book Title*, C. Editor, Ed. (Publisher, year), pp. xx–yy.sci-data).Initials precede surnames; titles are in sentence case; journal in italics; volume in bold. Use a reference manager style file for Science to enforce this mechanically.
| From | To (Science) |
|---|---|
| "(Smith et al., 2021)" | "(12)" |
| "Smith, J. (2021)." | "J. Smith, …" |
| Truncated "et al." in biblio | full author list |
| Alphabetical reference list | ordered by first appearance |
| Separate "Notes" section | merged into the numbered list |
Most general journals keep main-text and supplement references separate. Science's heavy reliance on Supplementary Materials means the SM often carries the bulk of the citations, and the house convention threads them into one consecutively numbered list (the SM continues the count from the main text). A reference first cited in fig. S7's legend gets the next free number, not a parallel "S" series. This is the single most common style defect when a manuscript is ported from a Nature-style or author–date template, because those tools renumber the SM independently. Confirm the exact current convention against the author guidelines, but build the list as one stream.
A Report cites three sources in its first paragraph, then introduces a fourth source only in the Supplementary Methods:
A. B. Chen, D. Okafor, Title of the first survey. *Science* **370**, 112 (2020).R. Mehta, S. Lindqvist, L. Park, Title of the second survey. *Nat. Commun.* **11**, 4471 (2020).J. Ito, Title of the model paper. *Phys. Rev. Lett.* **124**, 030601 (2020).K. Adeyemi, T. Roy, Title of the assay paper. *Cell* **180**, 55 (2020).Note: initials precede surnames, titles are sentence case, journal abbreviated and italic, volume bold — and reference 4, though first invoked in the SM, takes the next integer, not "S1".
| Failure mode (what a copyeditor flags) | Science-specific fix |
|---|---|
| SM references restart at 1 or use an "S" prefix | Merge into the single stream; renumber by first appearance across main + SM. |
| Manager truncated authors to "et al." in the list | Restore the full author list; Science prints all authors for typical counts. |
| Explanatory footnotes sit in a separate "Notes" block | Fold each note into the numbered list as its own entry. |
| In-text markers rendered upright "(12)" not italic | Apply the italic-number-in-parentheses form (12). |
| List alphabetized by a default CSL | Re-sort strictly by order of first citation. |
【Style detected】 author-date / Nature / other → Science
【Numbering】 by appearance? single continuous list incl SM? yes/no
【Author lists】 full (not et al.) in biblio? yes/no
【Journal abbreviations】 applied? yes/no
【Unresolved/duplicate refs】 [...]
【Next】 sci-cover-letter
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