Exporting your brief

When the agent finishes a run, its brief already carries the evidence behind every claim. Exporting turns that on-screen brief into a self-contained PDF or Word document — the full text, the inline citation markers, and a reference list rendered in the style your journal or institution expects.

#Exporting the cited brief

Everything the agent writes is grounded in the life-science literature, and each supporting paper is tracked alongside the passage that relies on it. Export preserves that link: the document you download is the brief plus a complete, correctly ordered reference section, not a flattened copy of the text.

To export a completed brief:

1. Open the export panel. Use the export action in the brief header once the agent has finished its run.
2. Pick a citation style. Choose the reference format that matches your target publication or reader.
3. Preview the references. The panel shows how the reference list will read in the selected style before you commit.
4. Choose a format and download. Export to PDF for a fixed, shareable record or to Word (DOCX) for an editable draft.

#Choosing a citation style

The agent renders the same underlying evidence into whichever reference style you select, so you can match the conventions of a specific journal, field, or handbook without editing citations by hand. Seven styles are available:

• NLM (PubMed): The National Library of Medicine format used by PubMed and most biomedical journals. Includes authors, article title, abbreviated journal name, year, volume, pages, and the PMID.
• Vancouver: The numbered style standard across medicine and the sciences. References are numbered in the order they first appear and cited by number in the text.
• CSE: The Council of Science Editors style, widely used in the biological and physical sciences. Supports name-year and citation-sequence conventions.
• APA: American Psychological Association style, common in psychology, education, and the social sciences. Uses an author-date format.
• Harvard: An author-date format popular across many academic institutions, especially in the UK and Australia.
• AMA: American Medical Association style, a numbered format used across clinical and medical publishing.
• MLA: Modern Language Association style, an author-page format used mainly in the humanities when a brief is shared outside a scientific venue.

#PDF and Word export

Both output formats contain the same brief and the same reference list — the difference is what you do with the file next.

#PDF

PDF produces a fixed, professionally formatted document that renders identically everywhere. Use it to archive a run, attach a brief to an email, or hand a reviewer a stable snapshot that cannot be edited by accident.

#Word (DOCX)

Word export produces an editable .docx file you can open in Word, Google Docs, or any compatible editor. Use it when the brief is a starting point — a draft you will expand, merge into a larger manuscript, or hand off to co-authors for revision. The reference list carries over in your chosen style so you keep working from correctly formatted citations.

#What the exported document includes

Whichever format you choose, the exported file contains:

• The full brief: Every section the agent produced, in order, with its headings and structure intact.
• Inline citation markers: The citation references stay attached to the claims they support, so a reader can trace any statement to its source.
• A complete reference list: Every cited paper, formatted in the style you selected and ordered according to that style's convention.
• Source details: For each reference, the title, authors, journal, year, and identifiers such as PMID and DOI, so readers can locate the original paper.

Because every reference resolves to a real, identifiable paper, an exported brief doubles as an audit trail: anyone reading it can follow each citation back to the underlying study and confirm the evidence for themselves.