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Create your first verifiable citation

A useful citation lets another person move from a claim to the exact passage that supports it. This guide walks through that handoff from question to public evidence page.

1. Ask a sourceable question

Open the trial or your workspace and ask a focused factual question. A narrow question makes it easier to distinguish supporting evidence from nearby but irrelevant text.

  • Prefer one claim per question.
  • Name the entity, place, date, or document you care about.
  • Ask for sources when the answer will be shared or used in a decision.

2. Inspect the evidence marker

CiteAnything attaches an evidence marker to supported answer text. Open it before relying on the answer. Check that the quotation actually entails the claim, not merely that the source mentions the same topic.

Note: A polished answer is not evidence. The quoted passage and its relationship to the claim are what matter.

3. Verify the citation record

The evidence page preserves the claim, exact quotation, source metadata, capture time, and the verification artifacts that were available for that source.

  • Open the original source when it remains reachable.
  • Use the text anchor or replay to recover surrounding context.
  • Treat screenshot unavailable as a capture limitation, not proof that the quotation is false.

4. Share or export

Share the evidence page when collaborators need to audit the claim. For academic writing, export a formal citation format and keep the public evidence link as a verification aid rather than a replacement for the original source.

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