What makes a citation verifiable?

CiteAnything treats verification as a layered record. No single artifact is sufficient for every source.

• Claim: the statement being supported.
• Quotation: the exact source text offered as evidence.
• Provenance: source URL or document identity, title, time, and location metadata.
• Verification artifact: a live source, text anchor, replay, screenshot, or content hash when available.

APA, GB/T 7714, BibTeX, and RIS describe sources; they do not prove that a source supports a particular sentence. Review the quotation-to-claim relationship first, then format the bibliography.

Sources can change, reject automated screenshots, or expose text differently to browsers and parsers. CiteAnything reports the artifact that is actually available instead of presenting every citation as equally preserved.

Note: Screenshot status is one signal. It is separate from quote extraction, source reachability, and human review.

Before reusing a citation, ask whether the quotation is exact, whether enough context is visible, whether the source is appropriate for the claim, and whether the source has changed since capture.