Guides
Working notes on citation styles, literature reviews and the mechanics of academic writing. Written by the people building the formatters, so the rules here are the ones the software actually implements.
Why AI Invents Citations — and What Actually Prevents It
Language models fabricate references because they generate plausible text, not because they look sources up. Retrieval-grounded writing is the structural fix, and here is how to tell the two apart.
Chicago vs Turabian: What Actually Differs
Turabian is Chicago's student edition, not a separate style. The citation formats are near-identical — what differs is paper formatting, scope and the audience each manual is written for.