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Paste a paragraph you have drafted and Anara searches your library for the specific passages that back each claim. It returns the matching text alongside your sentence and tells you when nothing in your library supports a claim. For researchers who write independently and use Anara to ground their drafts before submission.

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1. Describe the task

You wrote the paragraph. You know the argument. Now you need the citation, and the paper you are thinking of is somewhere in your library, in a folder you browsed three weeks ago, under a title that is only half-remembered. Anara runs this search for you. Paste the paragraph and ask which papers support which claims. Anara searches your library semantically, matches passages to specific sentences in your text, and returns the supporting text with clickable citations. It does not rewrite your paragraph, it does not improve your prose, and it does not generate references for papers that are not in your library. It finds what supports what you already wrote, and tells you directly when a claim has no library backing. For large libraries or when no library match exists, Anara can extend the search to the academic index to find papers that make the argument even if you have not imported them yet. Here a PhD student in electrochemical energy storage is working backward through three drafted chapters, attaching citations paragraph by paragraph before the first 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."

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2. Give Anara context

Required context
  • The library or folder that contains the papers you are citing from. If your library is organized by chapter or topic, name the relevant folder.
Optional context
  • A note that says “search the academic index too” if your library may have gaps. Anara will search the 240-million-paper index and propose papers to import.
  • Your preferred citation format if you want formatted references returned alongside the matched passages.

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3. What Anara creates

A claim-by-claim report: each sentence from your paragraph, the passage from your library that supports it, and the citation. Claims with no library match are flagged. The output is the audit you run before you hand the chapter to anyone else. Where Anara finds support, the citation is ready to insert. Where it finds nothing, you know exactly which claim still needs a source.

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4. Follow-up prompts

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Search the academic index for a missing claim

When Anara flags a claim as unsupported by your library, extend the search. 
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.

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Generate formatted references for every matched citation

When you want the full reference list for the paragraph, not the passages alone. 
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.

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Check a longer section at once

When the paragraph-by-paragraph approach is taking too long. 
Here is the complete methodology section, roughly 600 words. Go through it and match every claim that needs a citation to the best supporting passage in my library. Flag anything unsupported. I do not need you to rewrite anything.

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5. Tricks, tips, and troubleshooting

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How you word your prompt shapes what you get

Paste your text verbatim. A paraphrase of your claim returns different library matches than the exact sentence, because Anara searches on the wording. Include the explicit instruction not to rewrite the text. Without it, Anara may return a revised version of your paragraph with citations woven in, which can feel helpful but makes it harder to see which claim was matched to which passage. Ask for “the specific passage” rather than “supporting papers” if you want to see the matched text, not the document name alone.

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Check the output against your own understanding

A matched passage may support your claim in one reading and only partially in another. Before you cite, read the matched passage yourself. Ask yourself whether the paper’s author is making the same argument or a nearby one. Anara matches on semantic similarity, not on the logical structure of the argument. When the match feels close but not exact, ask Anara to quote the two sentences before and after the matched passage so you can see the context in which the author made the point.

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What to do with the output next

Run the citation audit before your supervisor or co-author sees the draft. Any “unsupported” flag is either a claim to revise or a search task to complete. Once the audit is clean, use the formatted-references follow-up to generate your bibliography section. If you write in LaTeX, ask for BibTeX export: this requires the export feature in your plan, so check availability first. The workflow also pairs naturally with the claim-verification tile, which runs the check in the opposite direction: you give Anara a specific citation and ask whether your wording accurately represents it.