Chinese Reference Formatter Skill

What it does

When your agent uses it

• A user needs通用中文参考文献、GB/T 7714-style bibliography entries
• Chinese academic reference formatting
• BibTeX completion from Chinese
• English literature titles

Example prompts

• “/chinese-reference-formatter-skill”

Requirements

• Python 3
• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Requires internet access for public metadata verification. Bundled formatter uses Python 3 standard library only.

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Read references/chinese-reference-rules.md before formatting.
2. 2For each input title, search public metadata sources and compare title, authors, year, venue, DOI/ISBN/URL.
3. 3Prefer DOI, publisher, university repository, official journal, official conference, official standards, or patent pages over aggregators.
4. 4If no DOI or official page exists, require a strong title match plus matching author/year/venue from at least one credible source.
5. 5If sources conflict and no source is clearly authoritative, return an ambiguity note instead of choosing.
6. 6If no clear match exists, output 未找到与“”明确对应的公开文献。
7. 7Normalize confirmed metadata to JSON and run scripts/format_reference.py to produce the reference entry plus BibTeX.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9a4b2db. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Ships 3 files in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • python

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

• Compatibility

  Requires internet access for public metadata verification. Bundled formatter uses Python 3 standard library only.

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Chinese Reference Formatter Skill loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.1k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 69 tokens; SKILL.md has 412 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~69

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.1k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~2.1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from franklee16/academic-research-skills at commit 9a4b2db, republished under its MIT licence (© franklee16). 412 words, ~1,058 tokens.

name

chinese-reference-formatter-skill

description

Use when a user needs通用中文参考文献、GB/T 7714-style bibliography entries, Chinese academic reference formatting, or BibTeX completion from Chinese or English literature titles, including 根据文献名补全参考文献、生成中文论文参考文献格式、format Chinese academic references.

compatibility

Requires internet access for public metadata verification. Bundled formatter uses Python 3 standard library only.

license

MIT

metadata.author

Zechang-Xiong

metadata.version

1.0.0

metadata.repository

https://github.com/Zechang-Xiong/chinese-reference-formatter-skill

metadata.tags

chinese-references, bibliography, bibtex, gb-t-7714, academic-writing

python scripts/format_reference.py --start 1 < metadata.json

{
  "type": "article",
  "title": "Paper title",
  "authors": ["Family, Given", "中文作者"],
  "journal": "Journal name",
  "booktitle": "Proceedings name",
  "year": 2026,
  "volume": "12",
  "issue": "3",
  "pages": "1-10",
  "doi": "10.xxxx/example",
  "url": "https://example.org",
  "access_date": "2026-05-07",
  "sources": ["https://source.example"]
}

标准参考文献：[1] ...
BibTeX：
```bibtex
...
```
核验来源：...

© franklee16, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 8 other files (scripts, references) in reference-citation/chinese-reference-formatter-skill-main of franklee16/academic-research-skills.

• SKILL.md
• .gitignore
• LICENSE
• README.md
• agents/openai.yaml
• references/chinese-reference-rules.md
• scripts/format_reference.py
• scripts/test_format_reference.py
• scripts/test_skill_content.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9a4b2db