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Every chat answer that uses sources ends with a pill reading N Cited Sources:, followed by a small stack of source icons. The number counts distinct sources rather than citation markers, so it always matches the number of cards you are about to see. Click the pill and the Sources panel opens on the right: one card per source, ordered by where the answer first cited it, each one expandable to the snippets that source contributed. The panel belongs to the answer you opened it from. Open it again from a different answer and the same panel re-points at that answer’s sources instead of stacking up a second panel or accumulating everything the conversation has cited.
The panel lists only the sources the answer actually drew on. Research results Libra was offered but never quoted are dropped, and a Review or Discovery you attached purely for context gets no card unless the answer cites it.
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In a Document card, click the snippet itself rather than the View source button. The snippet opens the document at that exact page with the cited passage highlighted; View source opens the same document from the top.

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What each card shows

Cards run in the order the answer first cited them — they are not grouped by source type — and one card stays open at a time. Every card carries a Cited N times badge and an expand control; expanding it reveals the snippets in the form that matters for that kind of source. The Sources panel open beside a chat answer, showing one collapsed card per cited source Web Search results and legal databases — Wolters Kluwer, Otto Schmidt, Legal Intelligence, monKEY, EUR-Lex, Kluwer Law International and whichever others your team has. The collapsed card shows the provider favicon and the source title; expanding it gives one snippet per place the answer cited it. View source opens the original in a new tab.

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Documents

Files you have uploaded or @-mentioned (PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, CSV). The collapsed card uses the native file-type icon — PDF in red, Word in blue, Excel in green. Expanding shows one snippet per cited page, each with a Page N label. Click a snippet to open the document at that page with the passage highlighted.

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Reviews

A Review the answer cited. The collapsed card shows the Review glyph and the Review’s title. Expanding a whole-Review citation reveals a Topic roster: one row per Topic with a risk pill reading No risk, Medium risk, High risk, Not found or Pending, so you can see at a glance which Topics the answer leaned on. Open Review takes you to the Review itself. Review cards carry no Find in chat button — there is only ever one place in the chat to land.

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Discoveries

A Discovery the answer cited. The collapsed card shows the Discovery glyph and the Discovery’s title. Expanding reveals a mini table preview — document rows against columns, with the actual cell answers — and the cited cell, row or column highlighted. Per-row, per-cell and per-column citations show the same neighbourhood the inline tooltip shows, so you can confirm the Discovery context without opening the full table. Open Discovery takes you to the table.
The Cited N times badge on each card tells you how hard that source is working: a source cited eight times is carrying much of the answer. Expand the card and use Find in chat to walk through every one of those places.

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Reading the panel

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Click the Cited Sources pill

Below the response, the pill reads 22 Cited Sources: — distinct sources, not citation markers. Click it to open the Sources panel on the right of the screen.Chat response with the Cited Sources pill highlighted
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Scan the cards

Cards follow the order in which the answer first cited them. Each shows the source icon, the title, a Cited N times badge and an expand control.
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Expand a card

Opening a card reveals the per-type detail: page snippets for documents, a Topic roster for Reviews, a mini table preview for Discoveries, one snippet per citation for web and database sources. Opening another card closes the first.
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Cycle the occurrences with Find in chat

Find in chat sits on the last snippet of an expanded card and scrolls the chat to where that source was used. Tap once to jump to the first occurrence, again to step to the next; the cursor wraps back to the start at the end. The marker in the answer flashes on each hit and the panel stays open.
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Or open the source

View source opens the original in a new tab or in the document viewer. Review and Discovery cards label the same button Open Review and Open Discovery, and it navigates to that Review or Discovery.

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Citation tooltip

Citation markers in the answer are chips carrying the source’s name, truncated — not a numbered reference. Hover one without clicking and a tooltip appears.
A chip with no +N points to a single source. It shows that source directly, with no chevrons and no counter, so you can verify it in one click.
Citation tooltip on hover showing source title and excerpt

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Working with a table in an answer

When an answer contains a table, a toolbar sits above it holding the table’s name, an Expand table button and an Export menu. Hovering any cell also puts a copy button on that cell alone. The screenshot below is the full-screen view rather than the inline toolbar — it carries its own Copy button, and its Export menu drops the Copy table item the inline one has. An expanded chat-answer table filling the screen, with a Copy button and an open Export menu offering With citations / Without citations and CSV, Excel, Word and PDF With citations turned on, the sources come across as cell comments in Excel, inline in the cells in CSV, and as footnotes in Word and PDF.

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Citation format when you copy or export

Separately from the table menu, you control how citations come across when you copy or export the answer itself. There are two forms: footnotes, or plain text with the markers stripped. Select any answer text and a small toolbar offers Copy with footnotes or Copy plain text: Selected answer text with a toolbar offering Copy with footnotes and Copy plain text The Copy button under the answer offers the same pair, and so do the copy buttons in the Word and Outlook add-ins. Ctrl + C is the exception: a copy event cannot append a reference list, so a selection containing citation chips is copied as plain text with the markers stripped. In the Export dropdown the same choice sits under References, above the Word Document / PDF choice and whether to export the whole chat or a single message. With footnotes is a toggle — leave it checked to carry the citations, click it again to clear it and export the text alone. Export dropdown showing the References setting (With footnotes) above Export as Word Document or PDF Diagrams in an answer — flowcharts and the like — come across as well: a Word or PDF export renders them into the document instead of dropping them.

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How far to trust a citation

Every card in the panel is a source Libra actually retrieved and quoted, so the snippet you read in the panel is the text the answer was built on. What the panel cannot tell you is whether that passage supports the point being made. That is what the click-through is for. Web results carry one extra caveat. A citation that came from Web Search shows the line Be aware: unverified third-party web information. in its tooltip: it is a public page Libra read, not a licensed legal database, and nothing about it has been checked.
Always open the sources behind anything you are going to rely on, and treat a web citation as a lead to confirm rather than an authority to cite.
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Leave the panel open as you read a long chat. Clicking the Cited Sources pill on another answer re-uses the same panel rather than opening a second one, so you can work your way down the conversation without closing anything.

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Tips for working with citations well

Citations are the audit trail. The panel snippet tells you what Libra quoted; only the source tells you whether it says what the answer claims. For anything going into advice, open it.
A card marked Cited 8 times is doing a lot of the work. Cycle through its occurrences with Find in chat and read each one in context before you accept the answer as a whole.
The collapsible strip above the answer — headed Thought for … once the answer has finished — records which databases Libra queried. The Sources panel records which results actually made it into the answer. Together they give you the full research path; see Research mode.

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Next steps

Research mode

Activate research and pick your sources.

Chat history

Find an old conversation and pick its sources back up.