A source ledger is useful when every material claim can point to a stable source record, precise locator, use boundary, reviewer disposition, and known contradiction.
Record enough to retrieve the source
Assign a stable identifier and capture title, author or issuing body, publication date, version, URL or controlled location, access date, persistent identifier when available, license or use restriction, and the person who added it. Preserve the original file or snapshot only where the buyer has authority and storage rules permit it.
Quarto accepts bibliography data in formats such as BibTeX and CSL and uses citation keys in the manuscript. That structured bibliography is a useful base, but a working ledger needs additional operating fields: verification status, relevant passages, report sections, replacement source, contradiction notes, and whether the underlying material may be included in a public repository.
Connect claims at the locator level
Create a row for each material factual or interpretive claim. Record the exact draft wording, source identifiers, page, section, table, timestamp, or quoted range, and the author's explanation of support. Mark direct support, partial support, background only, disputed, contradicted, or unresolved. Reviewers should be able to change the disposition without rewriting history.
Do not turn the ledger into a volume contest. Ten loosely related sources do not strengthen a claim that none directly supports. Preserve contrary evidence and scope limits beside the supporting record. If the source changed after the draft was written, record both versions and decide whether the claim needs revision instead of silently replacing the citation target.
Carry the ledger into the package
Before publication, validate that every cited key resolves, every required locator is present, every held claim has a disposition, and every public link is appropriate for the destination. Generate the bibliography from the same source data used by the ledger. Retain internal reviewer notes according to the buyer's record policy rather than publishing them by default.
Reality Contact, LLC configures the ledger for Research Release Desk but does not certify the truth, completeness, or legal permissibility of its contents. Authors and designated reviewers decide whether evidence supports a claim, whether sensitive material may be used, and which contradictions change the report. The ledger records those decisions instead of replacing them.
Where the service stops
Reality Contact, LLC installs research-publishing operations but does not conduct peer review, validate data or methods, determine authorship, approve conclusions, give legal or ethics advice, warrant citation accuracy, represent a journal, or guarantee acceptance, indexing, readership, or search visibility. The buyer supplies authorized sources, names responsible authors and reviewers, approves the outline and claims, resolves methodological and ethical questions, accepts every visual and format, and authorizes publication through its normal governance. This workflow service does not replace methodological, statistical, subject-matter, peer, legal, ethics, privacy, authorship, accessibility, or publication review. The buyer authorizes all sources, assigns every reviewer, approves all claims and visuals, and controls publication; private research waits for secure intake and written deletion terms.
Sources: Quarto citation syntax and bibliography files; Quarto manuscript authoring guide.