Find citations for a draft

Paste a paragraph you have drafted and Anara finds the passages in your library that back each claim, with citations, and tells you directly when nothing does. Use it to attach real sources to writing you have already done, without Anara rewriting it.

Prompt

A PhD student in electrochemical energy storage attaches citations to a drafted thesis chapter before supervisor review.

Here is a paragraph I have drafted for Chapter 3 of my thesis on solid-state lithium metal batteries. Find papers in my library that support each claim in this paragraph. Return the specific passage that backs each claim, with a citation. If a claim has no support in my library, flag it as unsupported rather than searching broadly.

"At elevated temperatures, solid electrolyte interfaces become more conductive but also more susceptible to dendritic growth, with onset of instability typically observed above 60°C. Recent work on argyrodite-class electrolytes suggests that ionic conductivity improvements at higher temperatures are offset by increased grain boundary resistance at the anode interface."

What to add to your library

• Required: the library or folder with the papers you cite from. Name the folder if you organize by chapter or topic.
• Optional: "search the academic index too" if your library may have gaps. Anara will propose papers to import.
• Optional: your preferred citation format, for formatted references alongside the passages.

What you get

• A claim-by-claim report: each sentence, the supporting passage, and the citation.
• A flag on every claim with no library match, so you know what still needs a source.
• Citations ready to insert wherever support was found.

Follow-ups

Search beyond your library for an unsupported claim.

For the second sentence that was flagged as unsupported: search the academic literature for papers that make this argument specifically. Find papers published in the last five years. If you find a match, propose importing it.

Generate a formatted reference list.

Generate APA 7 citations for every paper you matched in this search. Return them as a formatted reference list I can paste into my bibliography.

Tips

• Paste your text verbatim. Anara searches on the wording, so a paraphrase returns different matches.
• Say explicitly not to rewrite the text, or you may get a revised paragraph with citations woven in.
• Ask for "the specific passage" rather than "supporting papers" to see the matched text.
• Matching is semantic, not logical. Read each passage and ask for the surrounding sentences when the match feels close but not exact.