citesure: stop shipping hallucinated citations
In April 2026, Nature reported that tens of thousands of 2025 publications may include invalid references generated by AI. arXiv will ban submitters for a year when a paper shows incontrovertible evidence of unchecked LL
In April 2026, Nature reported that tens of thousands of 2025 publications may include invalid references generated by AI. arXiv will ban submitters for a year when a paper shows incontrovertible evidence of unchecked LLM output โ including fabricated references.
The hard part is a gate that fits real writing workflows: local CLI, CI, structured reports, and repair.
citesure
citesure verifies bibliographies against Crossref, doi.org, arXiv, and PubMed, then optionally repairs BibTeX.
pip install git+https://github.com/SybilGambleyyu/citesure.git
citesure check refs.bib
citesure fix refs.bib -o refs.fixed.bib
Statuses: verified, metadata_mismatch, retracted, not_found, ambiguous.
Live demo: citesure.sybilgambleyyu.workers.dev
Full post (canonical): sybilgambleyyu.github.io/blog/posts/citesure.html
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