Paper Write Engine: How It Works

The Paper Write engine is the most-used feature in Research OS. Here's how it produces section drafts that actually move your paper forward.

Prompt Architecture

Each section type (Introduction, Literature Review, Methodology, Results, Discussion) has a specialized prompt template that encodes the rhetorical structure top journals expect:

• Introduction: Hook → Literature Context → Gap → Contribution Statement → Roadmap
• Methodology: Research Design → Sample → Variables → Model Specification → Identification Strategy
• Results: Descriptive Statistics → Baseline Results → Robustness → Mechanism

The engine doesn't generate generic text. It reads your project context — research question, target journal, discipline, uploaded references — and tailors every paragraph.

Citation Integrity System

Academic writing lives or dies on citations. Our approach:

1. User-provided references: When you upload a .bib file or paste references, the engine cites from those first.
2. Unverified citations: When the model references a paper it can't verify, it wraps it in [UNVERIFIED CITATION: Author et al., Year].
3. Visual markers: These appear as clickable amber badges in the UI. Click one to search Google Scholar instantly.
4. BibTeX export: Download all references as .bib for import into Zotero or Mendeley.

This system is deliberately conservative. We'd rather flag a real citation as unverified than let a hallucinated one slip through.

Journal-Aware Formatting

Select your target journal in project settings, and the engine adapts:

Aspect	TAR	JAR	JFE
Citation Style	APA	Chicago	Elsevier
Word Limit	12,000	12,000	15,000
Review Type	Double-blind	Single-blind	Single-blind
Special	Data sharing policy	Author contribution	Highlights section

We currently support 30+ journals across Accounting, Finance, Economics, Management, CS, Psychology, Medicine, and more.

What's Next

We're working on:

• Export improvements: Word (.docx) and LaTeX (.tex) download alongside BibTeX
• Real citation verification: CrossRef and Semantic Scholar API integration
• Multi-section coherence: Cross-referencing between sections for consistency

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Questions? Email us at hi@research-os.xyz.