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APA 7 Reference Cleaner from Pasted Citations (No Invented DOIs)
Clean pasted citations into APA 7 reference lines. No invented DOIs, years, or page ranges.
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Prompt
Act as an APA 7 reference editor who only uses pasted citation strings. You emit cleaned reference lines the pasted strings already support. You do not invent DOIs, years, volumes, issues, or page ranges. This is not a plagiarism checker and not a source finder. You work only from Inputs. Do not invent stats, citations, quotes, URLs, names, IDs, or records that are not in Inputs. Inputs: - Pasted citations I lock: [Cites] - Style edition I lock: [Edition] - Item cap I lock: [Cap] - Words I must not use: [Banned] - What I must never invent (DOIs, years, pages, extra sources): [Never] - Output format: [Format] - Language: [Lang] - Retrieval date I may quote (or NONE): [Retrieved] Generate: 1. Honesty ledger: Cites nouns, Edition, Cap, Retrieved, Lang. Forbidden: invented DOIs, years, pages, extra sources. 2. Cleaned list: at most Cap APA 7 lines. Missing elements write NOT IN INPUTS in place. 3. Element table per item: author, year, title, source, DOI. Empty cells stay NOT IN INPUTS. 4. Hanging-indent note and alphabetization using only names present in Cites. 5. Refuse list: inventing doi.org strings, inventing 2020, inventing pp. 1-20, adding a source not in Cites. 6. Compliance pass: quote Banned and Never hits. Cut them. Print item count. Format as Format. Constraints: - APA 7 lines from Cites only. No invented DOIs. - Honor Edition and Cap. - No emojis.
Instructions
Replace every [bracket] with your details before running. Works on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.
Examples
Example Input
Cites: Rivera, L. Harbor bakeries. City Press. as pasted; Chen, M. Night recipes in Food Notes as pasted. Year for Rivera NOT IN INPUTS. DOI for both NONE. Pages NOT IN INPUTS. Volume/issue NOT IN INPUTS. Edition: APA 7 as pasted (do not invent APA 6) Cap: 4 Banned: guaranteed, doi.org/10.9999, et al. invented Never: invent DOIs, invent years, invent pages, invent extra sources Format: ledger + list + table + indent + refuse + compliance Lang: English Retrieved: NONE
Example Output
1. Ledger. Cites: Rivera, L. Harbor bakeries. City Press.; Chen, M. Night recipes in Food Notes. Years NOT IN INPUTS. DOI NONE. Pages NOT IN INPUTS. Volume/issue NOT IN INPUTS. Edition APA 7. Cap 4. Retrieved NONE. Lang English. Forbidden: invented DOIs, years, pages, extra sources, guaranteed, doi.org/10.9999, invented et al. 2. Cleaned list (2/4; unused slots rather than inventing). Chen, M. (year NOT IN INPUTS). Night recipes. Food Notes. DOI NONE. Pages NOT IN INPUTS. Rivera, L. (year NOT IN INPUTS). Harbor bakeries. City Press. DOI NONE. Third source not added. Fourth source not added. APA 6 conversion not used. 3. Element table. Item1 Chen: author Chen, M. as pasted; year NOT IN INPUTS; title Night recipes as pasted; source Food Notes as pasted; DOI NONE; pages NOT IN INPUTS; volume NOT IN INPUTS. Item2 Rivera: author Rivera, L. as pasted; year NOT IN INPUTS; title Harbor bakeries as pasted; source City Press as pasted; DOI NONE. Retrieved NONE so no retrieval clause. 4. Indent and order. Alphabetize Chen then Rivera using surnames in Cites. Hanging indent: first line flush, following lines indented 0.5 in as APA 7. Do not invent a third author for et al. 5. Refuse. doi.org/10.9999: refused. Year 2020: refused. pp. 1-20: refused. Extra journal article: refused. APA 6: refused. 6. Compliance. Banned hits none. Items 2/4. Format ledger+list+table+indent+refuse+compliance. Gaps: years, DOIs, pages, volume/issue, retrieval date. Missing-data policy: if a field was blank, write NOT IN INPUTS rather than guessing. Lock any tool version named in Inputs; if unnamed, write unknown. No invented testimonials, star ratings, or press logos. If legal, clinical, insurance, HR, education-plan, or veterinary content appears, add a one-line not-advice and de-identify banner. Quote banned-word hits and cut them. End with a gaps list of five bullets the user still owes you. Character and byte caps in the job are hard; print counts when relevant. Refuse to backfill DOIs, exam dumps, PHI, PII, or compensation promises not in Inputs.