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An answer that used sources ends in a N Cited Sources: pill. Click it — the Citation list panel opens on the right with one card per source, in the order the answer cited them.
The number counts distinct sources, not citation markers, so it always matches the cards.Only sources the answer actually drew on get a card: research results Libra was offered but never quoted are dropped, and a Review or Discovery you attached purely for context appears only if 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 it from the top.

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What each card shows

Cards follow the order the answer first cited them, never grouped by type, and one stays open at a time. The Citation list panel open beside a chat answer, showing one collapsed card per cited source with its Cited N times badge
The Cited N times badge tells you how hard a source is working: cited eight times, it carries 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

The panel runs one loop: expand a card, jump to where the answer used that source with Find in chat, then open the original. Four clicks take you from the pill to the lease clause the answer quoted.
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Click the Cited Sources pill

Chat response with the Cited Sources pill highlighted below the answerThe pill sits directly under the answer.
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Expand a card

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 it again to step to the next occurrence; at the end it wraps back to the start. The marker 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.

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Citation tooltip

Citation markers are chips carrying the source’s name, truncated — not a numbered reference. Hover one without clicking and a tooltip appears. A citation chip on hover: the tooltip names the source, quotes the § 622 BGB excerpt, counts 1 of 2 citations and offers Citation list and To source
A chip with no +N points at a single source and opens it in one click — no chevrons, no counter.

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Working with a table in an answer

A table in an answer gets a toolbar above it holding the table’s name, Expand table and an Export menu. Hovering a cell puts a copy button on that cell alone. 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. The expanded full-screen view of a chat-answer table, with Copy and an open Export menu offering Export table as… CSV, Excel, Word or PDF

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Citation format when you copy or export

Citations come across in one of two forms: footnotes, or plain text with the markers stripped. The Copy button under an answer offers exactly that pair — Copy with footnotes or Copy plain text. Selecting answer text instead raises a smaller toolbar with Copy plain text and Ask Libra, which starts a new question from the passage you highlighted. Selected answer text with a small toolbar offering Ask Libra and Copy plain text The Word and Outlook add-ins offer the same pair. Ctrl + C is the exception: a copy event cannot append a reference list, so a selection containing citation chips comes out as plain text. In the Export dropdown the same choice sits under References, above the Word Document / PDF picker and the choice of the whole chat or a single message. With footnotes is a toggle — leave it checked to carry the citations, click it again to export the text alone. Export dropdown showing the References setting (With footnotes) above Export as Word Document or PDF Diagrams travel too: a Word or PDF export renders flowcharts into the document instead of dropping them.

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How far to trust a citation

The snippet in the panel is the exact text the answer was built on — Libra’s quotation of the source, not the source. A citation from Web Search shows the line Be aware: unverified third-party web information. in its tooltip — 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.The panel belongs to the answer you opened it from: click the Cited Sources pill on another answer and it re-points at that answer’s sources instead of opening a second panel or piling up everything the conversation has cited.

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Tips for working with citations well

The strip above the answer — headed Thought for … once it has finished — records which databases Libra queried. The Citation list panel records which results made it into the answer. Together they are the full research path; see Research mode.

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Next steps

Research mode

Activate research and pick your sources.

Chat basics

The composer, the modes, and finding an old conversation.