Audits every footnote in a YLJ legal piece for existence, support, pinpoint accuracy, and Bluebook form; sweeps short-form chains, cross-references, and quotation fidelity ahead of source-pull.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/yale-law-journal-skills:ylj-footnotes-and-cite-checkThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
The heavy-footnote apparatus is what distinguishes legal scholarship, and YLJ's **source-pull** verifies
The heavy-footnote apparatus is what distinguishes legal scholarship, and YLJ's source-pull verifies
every footnote by hand. This skill runs the same audit you should run before submission and again
during editing, so the piece survives source-pull cleanly. It verifies an existing apparatus; building
cites is ylj-sources-and-bluebook, and the editorial cycle that triggers source-pull is
ylj-revision-and-editing.
id., supra) and cross-references after heavy revision| Check | Failure it catches |
|---|---|
| Short-form chain | An id. pointing at the wrong antecedent after a paragraph was moved |
supra notes | A supra note 14 whose note 14 was renumbered or deleted |
| First-full-cite rule | A short form used before the source's first full citation |
| Cross-references | "See Part III.B" when restructuring renamed the Part |
| Quotation fidelity | Quoted text that no longer matches the source verbatim; missing [ ]/. . . |
| Signal accuracy | See where the source states it directly (or E.g. with one example) |
[ ], . . ., (emphasis added), (citation omitted)).Build a query-resistant apparatus: for the hardest cites, drop an explanatory parenthetical that shows where in the source the support lives. This converts a likely author query into a verified footnote.
id./supra) consistent after all revisionsid. / supra chains broken by reordering, left for the source-puller to untangle【Cites audited】N footnotes; existence + support + pinpoint + form all pass? Y/N
【Hard cites】load-bearing cites re-checked against source? Y/N
【Short forms】id./supra chain + cross-refs consistent? Y/N
【Quotations】collated verbatim + alterations marked? Y/N
【Source-pull-ready】Y/N
【Next】ylj-workflow to route the next piece, or ylj-revision-and-editing if mid-edit
../../resources/external_tools.md — Bluebook, KeyCite/Shepard's, and cite-checking tools../../resources/official-source-map.md — YLJ source-pull / citation-requirement factsnpx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin yale-law-journal-skillsBuilds and audits the footnote apparatus of a Harvard Law Review piece for cite-check and source-pull readiness. Use before submission to verify proposition support, quotation accuracy, and pincites.
Builds and formats YLJ citation apparatus with Bluebook form, pinpoint cites, and source support for every legal assertion.
Verifies citations in academic/legal manuscripts by checking existence, accuracy, quotes, and claim grounding using Paperpile, BibTeX, and RAG.