Sources & citations
Every claim ties back to its source.
Every regulatory claim and number has a numbered citation. Document citations 1 point to a page in an uploaded file. Regulatory citations c1 point to a section of the corpus. Click a citation to open the source beside the answer.
How citations work
- Document citations open the exact page in your uploads
- Regulatory citations open the cited section of the corpus
- Click any citation to open the source with the quote highlighted
- Definite claims and calculated numbers require a citation. Uncertainty is flagged.
- A blue mark means a real source backs the claim. A yellow mark means judgment or a figure you supplied, with nothing to open behind it.
- Scanned pages are transcribed automatically, so a citation into a scan still highlights the line it quotes
In documents and spreadsheets
Citations follow the work into the editor. In a Word document a cited claim carries a numbered superscript; in a spreadsheet a cited cell carries a dot you can click to pull up the source beside the sheet. A cited AP-42 factor opens the real EPA PDF on the row the factor came from, and a value pulled from an uploaded workbook opens that workbook on the cited row. The Citations switch in the editor hides the dots when you want a clean view.
Show the math
When an answer uses a formula, the assistant shows the equation and its source. The formula library has about 5,000 validated regulatory formulas.
In exports
Word exports add a numbered References section at the end, with a superscript number on each cited claim. Spreadsheet exports put numbered footnotes under each sheet's table, with a matching superscript on the cited cell, so the sources travel with the sheet instead of sitting on a separate tab. Both survive the round trip into Excel and Word.