SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CITATION PROCESSING, PRESENTATION AND TRANSPORT FOR VALIDATING REFERENCES

摘要

A system and method automatically processes one or more citations contained within a document while the document is presented by a document rendering application. The document is scanned to identify an unformatted citation and the unformatted citation is parsed to determine one or more citation terms. Citation libraries are queried to find citations comprising the citation terms. A citation falling within the scope of the query is selected and inserted into the document. Authors and publishers may also prepare documents in structured format for efficient and accurate validation of references cited. An author prepares a document containing a set of cited references using a formatting structure. A reference validation module recognizes the formatting structure and embedded metadata associated with the set of cited references. The module extracts the embedded metadata and compares the extracted metadata against an authority database to determine the validity of the set of cited references.