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Practical reading on citations, bibliographies, and the LaTeX submission workflow — written for people who actually submit papers.
Why your AI assistant keeps making up citations
Hallucinated references look exactly like real ones. Why language models invent citations, how often it happens, and where the line between "AI helping" and "AI inventing" actually is.
Jul 17, 2026 · 3 min readThe .bib errors that quietly wreck a submission
Duplicate entries under different keys, cite keys pointing at deleted references, sources nobody cites — the .bib problems that slip past a manual read-through, and how to catch all three in one pass.
Jul 17, 2026 · 3 min read