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Citations and sources

Use citations to verify where an answer came from and whether it is actually supported.

What citations mean

Citations point to the source passages selected by the retrieval pipeline. They are the verification layer for every answer, especially when a question spans long or technical documents.

Citations are validated, not trusted

In chunks mode, each quote the model returns is validated against its cited chunk. Exact matches are preferred, with normalized and high-threshold fuzzy matching as fallbacks for OCR markdown and punctuation differences. The citing page is resolved from the chunk’s page spans. Up to four citations are attached per answer.

How to check an answer

  1. 01Open the citationJump from the answer to the referenced page in the PDF viewer.
  2. 02Read around the passageCheck surrounding paragraphs so the answer is not missing important qualifiers.
  3. 03Ask a follow-upIf a citation looks incomplete, ask for the exact clause, table, or page context.

Limits

Citations do not make the model infallible — they make the answer auditable. When a decision matters, review the cited source text directly in the viewer.