Understanding citations

Every answer the Vulgate AI generates is grounded in passages from your Library. Citations link the words on the screen to the source text they came from — so you can verify, quote, and trust the output.

What a citation looks like

In a Chat or AI Assistant response you'll see numbered superscripts (¹, ², ³, …) sprinkled through the text. At the bottom of the answer, the References section lists each citation in order, with:

The document title and section heading, linked to the document.
A short snippet so you can see the surrounding context at a glance.

Hover any superscript number in the body of the answer and a popover surfaces the same snippet inline.

Click through to the source

Click any reference (or any superscript) to open the passage in the document viewer (usually in a new tab) so you can read everything around the cited text.

Why we cite

Vulgate is built around retrieval-augmented generation: the model doesn't answer from memory; it answers from text it just retrieved from your Library. Citations make that retrieval transparent. If a sentence in the answer isn't cited, treat it as background framing — not as a claim grounded in your sources.

When an answer has no citations

A few cases will produce uncited answers:

The question is conversational ("thanks!", "can you reword that?") and doesn't require source material.
The retrieval step found no relevant passages. Vulgate will say so explicitly rather than make something up.

If you expected citations and didn't get any, try rephrasing more specifically, narrowing the Libraries filter, or switching to Search to see what passages exist.

Copying an answer

Use Copy answer under a message to copy the response text and its reference list to your clipboard.