Source: https://guthlabs.ai/docs/field-guides/citation-rules/ field guide / candidate # Citation rules A source-bound proposal for creating, checking, and preserving citations in guided inquiry, source comparison, lesson pathways, study records, and uncertainty marking. It keeps source locators, SHA-256 values, provenance, revisions, and lifecycle visible while treating all provider, publication, and production effects as held. Status: **candidate**Lifecycle: **candidate** ## Record status **Record ID**: field-guide:citation-rules **Parent lifecycle**: candidate **Page lane**: catalog overview **Lane lifecycle**: candidate **Owner**: Socrates **Owner role**: Not separately recorded **Owner status**: Not separately recorded **Qualification result**: NOT RUN · held for evidence and human review **Working browser surface:** [Field guides — documentation]() — Inspect the guide and persist local checkpoints. This route is local-only; provider, credential, database, customer, publication, deployment, and production effects remain held. ## Purpose and audience A source-bound proposal for creating, checking, and preserving citations in guided inquiry, source comparison, lesson pathways, study records, and uncertainty marking. It keeps source locators, SHA-256 values, provenance, revisions, and lifecycle visible while treating all provider, publication, and production effects as held. - Socrates - Guided inquiry agents - Source comparison agents - Lesson pathway authors - Study record owners - Reviewers checking uncertainty and provenance ## Required or proposed record references The list defines expected record classes. It does not assert that any instance exists. - A source-labelled note for each claim or claim group - A source-labelled file reference when evidence is a file - A field-guide record containing ordered steps and checkpoints - A to-do record for unresolved citation or review work - An approval record for any proposed decision about citation quality - An agent-log record preserving authority, work state, and receipts ## Route contract The links below are this site's admitted canonical public records. Source-lane route suggestions are proposals only and are not represented as live or canonical until separately admitted. [01**overview**/docs/field-guides/citation-rules/]()[02**prerequisites**/docs/field-guides/citation-rules/prerequisites/]()[03**steps**/docs/field-guides/citation-rules/steps/]()[04**tools**/docs/field-guides/citation-rules/tools/]()[05**forms**/docs/field-guides/citation-rules/forms/]()[06**examples**/docs/field-guides/citation-rules/examples/]()[07**related jobs**/docs/field-guides/citation-rules/related-jobs/]()[08**qualification**/docs/field-guides/citation-rules/qualification/]() ### Held source-proposed extensions - /docs/field-guides/citation-rules/overview/ These extension paths are not generated by this record and must not be treated as resolving routes. ## Public claim boundary Allowed items below are source-lane proposals, not verified current-state claims. ### Candidate claims allowed after source review - This is a proposed source-bound citation procedure. - The observed Guth contract includes source locators, source SHA-256, provenance, revisions, lifecycle, tags, links, attachments, and record revisions. - The observed contract provides local or indexed Notebook surfaces for notes, files, to-dos, approvals, field guides, search, and agent logs. - The verified instrument directory contains the exact slug checksum-verifier. ### Claims held - Any claim that citation records are deployed or connected in production. - Any claim that a provider, credential, database, customer index, or external publication is connected. - Any claim that a source was browsed, fetched, uploaded, or independently verified beyond the supplied record. - Any claim that a cited work is qualified, authoritative, complete, or legally sufficient. - Any claim that an approval changes external state or authorizes final communication. ## Sources and evidence These pointers bind the page to evidence. They do not grant authority or collapse verification into deployment. - `source_record:field-guide:citation-rules` - `agents/index.html#socrates` - `field-guide:citation-rules:plan` - `Observed native contract: records preserve canonical IDs, origin, source locators, source SHA-256, provenance, revision, lifecycle, tags, links, attachments, and record revisions` - `Observed native contract: PointGuard is a persistent cross-app context surface while specialist apps remain execution and canonical-record owners` - `Observed app route: /app/notebook/field-guides/` - `Observed app route: /app/notebook/notes/` - `Observed app route: /app/notebook/files/` - `Observed app route: /app/notebook/to-dos/` - `Observed app route: /app/notebook/approvals/` - `Observed app route: /app/notebook/agent-logs/` - `Allowed instrument: checksum-verifier` - `field-guide:citation-rules:tools` - `OBSERVED_NATIVE_CONTRACT.records` - `OBSERVED_NATIVE_CONTRACT.pointguard` - `/app/notebook/field-guides/` - `/app/notebook/notes/` - `/app/notebook/files/` - `/app/notebook/approvals/` - `/app/notebook/agent-logs/` - `/app/notebook/search/` - `checksum-verifier` - `sha-256-hash-function-demo` - `field-guide:citation-rules` - `Observed native contract: project_and_field_guide_collections` - `Observed native contract: records` - `Observed native contract: deadlines` - `Observed native contract: pointguard` - `App route: /app/notebook/field-guides/` - `App route: /app/notebook/notes/` - `App route: /app/notebook/files/` - `App route: /app/notebook/projects/` - `App route: /app/notebook/approvals/` - `App route: /app/notebook/agent-logs/` - `App route: /app/notebook/search/` - `App route: /app/pointguard/`