Citations
Every answer cites its sources inline, and every source comes with a citation you can copy. Citations are built from the source's details by fixed rules, not written by the model.
01Citations in the answer
The model writes the answer with a marker such as [S1] after each claim, pointing to one of the run's sources. On the run page each marker becomes a small chip named for the publisher, for example "Reuters". When a claim cites several sources, the chip reads "Reuters +2".
Click a chip to see the cited source: publisher, date when known, title and a snippet. Use the arrows to page through the others. Click the title to jump to the source in the run's list, or Open to visit the page.
A marker that points at no source is still shown, as the plain marker; hovering it says "Source not available". It is never hidden, because hiding it would make a claim look uncited when it was not.
On RA-2, markers are checked before you read the answer: a wrong citation is moved to the source that backs the sentence, and a sentence nothing backs is rewritten or removed. See RA-2.
In project chat
Project chat cites more finely: a citation points at the paragraph of a saved source it used. Click it to see the claim and the passage side by side. A citation that cannot be matched to a saved source shows as [?].
02A citation for every source
Open a source in the run's source list. Under its analysis is a citation with a tab for each style: MLA, APA, Chicago, IEEE, Harvard and BibTeX. Pick a tab and copy it. The same citation appears when you open the source as a panel in a project.
For one source with an author and a date, the six styles look like this:
Jane Doe. "How grid batteries changed the evening peak." Example Energy Review, 2025, https://www.example.org/energy/grid-batteries. Accessed 28 Sep 2026.Jane Doe (2025). How grid batteries changed the evening peak. Example Energy Review. https://www.example.org/energy/grid-batteriesJane Doe. "How grid batteries changed the evening peak." Example Energy Review. Accessed 28 Sep 2026. https://www.example.org/energy/grid-batteries.Jane Doe. "How grid batteries changed the evening peak," Example Energy Review, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://www.example.org/energy/grid-batteries. [Accessed: 28 Sep 2026].Jane Doe (2025) 'How grid batteries changed the evening peak', Example Energy Review. Available at: https://www.example.org/energy/grid-batteries (Accessed: 28 Sep 2026).@misc{JaneDoe2025,
author = {Jane Doe},
title = {How grid batteries changed the evening peak},
howpublished = {\url{https://www.example.org/energy/grid-batteries}},
note = {Accessed: 2026-09-28},
year = {2025},
publisher = {Example Energy Review}
}03How they are built
When a page is read, the run keeps its title, author, publisher or site name, publication date and address. The citation is filled in from those fields, with the date it was built as the access date. The same fields always give the same citation.
Two things to know:
- Names are printed as found. An author's name appears the way the page gives it. It is not reordered into "Last, First".
- These are web citations. Every source is cited as an online source. For a journal article, book or report in its proper form, use Cite, which reads the full record behind a DOI or ISBN.
04When a field is missing
Many web pages leave out an author or a date. The citation is still produced, with these fallbacks:
| Missing | What the citation uses |
|---|---|
| year | n.d. ("no date"). BibTeX leaves the year out. |
| author | MLA, Chicago and IEEE start with the title. APA and Harvard put the site in the author position. BibTeX leaves the author out. |
| publisher | The site's host name, such as data.example.gov. The host is also used when the publisher field only repeats the author. |
| title | The page's address. |
For the same kind of page with no author and no date:
data.example.gov (n.d.). Storage capacity by state. data.example.gov. https://data.example.gov/storage05Taking an answer with you
On a finished run, Copy copies the answer and Export downloads it as a Markdown file. Both contain the question as a heading, the answer with its [S1] markers, and a Sources list that pairs each marker with its title and address.
# How have grid batteries changed evening demand?
Grid batteries now cover part of the evening peak in several markets [S1] ...
## Sources
- **[S1]** How grid batteries changed the evening peak — https://www.example.org/energy/grid-batteriesTo turn the markers into footnotes or a reference list in your own style, see Working with citations.
06How citations are checked
- Every run checks the answer's claims against the evidence it gathered, and shows the share of claims backed by evidence on the finished run.
- RA-1 also measures the answer sentence by sentence: how many factual sentences carry a citation, and how many citations point at a source that says the sentence. It records this without changing the answer.
- RA-2 runs the same measurement, then repairs what fails, and records the answer before and after. The comparison between the two models is published on the RA-2 release post.