Frame Check is built to be cited. Every artifact on this site carries a citation block, and this page aggregates them so a researcher deciding whether to reference the work can copy a ready-to-paste citation in one place.
Citations resolve against the Frame Vocabulary Standard's four-status taxonomy. The guarantee differs by status:
canondraft[DRAFT] marker on the plain-text citation and a
status = draft field in BibTeX flag this. A draft
citation is legitimate, just weaker than a canon citation.retiredaspirationalLucic, L. (2026). Frame Check: a structural framing analysis tool. https://frame.clarethium.com
@misc{framecheck,
author = {Lucic, Lovro},
title = {Frame Check: a structural framing analysis tool},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {Software. Code Apache-2.0; Corpus CC-BY-4.0},
url = {https://frame.clarethium.com}
}Stable. The tool's author and URL do not change. Cite when referencing Frame Check as a research instrument or tool.
Lucic, L. (2026). FVS-008 Growth Frame, v1. FrameCheck Frame Library 0.2.0. https://frame.clarethium.com/corpus/library/FVS-008
@misc{fvs008,
author = {Lucic, Lovro},
title = {FVS-008 Growth Frame, v1},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {FrameCheck Frame Library 0.2.0},
url = {https://frame.clarethium.com/corpus/library/FVS-008},
note = {status = draft; CC-BY-4.0}
}Entry-level citation. Substitute the FVS ID and entry title you are referencing; the current library version is 0.2.0. Draft entries carry [DRAFT] in plain text and status = draft in BibTeX.
Lucic, L. (2026). FrameCheck Frame Library, v0.2.0. https://frame.clarethium.com/corpus/library/
@misc{framecheckfvs,
author = {Lucic, Lovro},
title = {FrameCheck Frame Library},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {v0.2.0, CC-BY-4.0},
url = {https://frame.clarethium.com/corpus/library/}
}Cite when referencing the taxonomy as a collective artifact rather than a specific entry. Library version bumps are recorded in data/frame_library/VERSION.
Lucic, L. (2026). Frame Check Methodology. https://frame.clarethium.com/corpus/methodology/
@misc{framecheckmethod,
author = {Lucic, Lovro},
title = {Frame Check Methodology},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {CC-BY-4.0},
url = {https://frame.clarethium.com/corpus/methodology/}
}Cite when referencing how Frame Check's detection and verification methods work. The paper is part of the corpus and is revised alongside the library.
Lucic, L. (2026). Frame Check Source Network Calibration, <run date>. https://frame.clarethium.com/corpus/calibration/<run-date>/
@misc{framecheckcalib,
author = {Lucic, Lovro},
title = {Frame Check Source Network Calibration},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {Dataset, CC-BY-4.0},
url = {https://frame.clarethium.com/corpus/calibration/},
note = {Immutable per run; cite specific dated run URL.}
}Each calibration run is immutable once published. Substitute the specific dated run URL in the citation. Re-running the harness creates a new dated artifact; it never overwrites a published one. Each run's REPORT.md lists the claim corpus version and per-provider F1.
[VALIDATION CORPUS] Lucic, L. (2026). Claude on whether to retire on Bitcoin (life-decision question). FrameCheck Decision-Readiness Validation Corpus, library version 0.2.0. https://frame.clarethium.com/corpus/decision-readiness/corpus/four-llms-bitcoin-claude/
@misc{frame_check_corpus_four_llms_bitcoin_claude,
author = {Lucic, Lovro},
title = {{Claude on whether to retire on Bitcoin (life-decision question)}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {FrameCheck Decision-Readiness Validation Corpus, library version 0.2.0},
url = {https://frame.clarethium.com/corpus/decision-readiness/corpus/four-llms-bitcoin-claude/},
note = {genre = ai_response; status = experimental (Phase 2 validation pending); CC-BY-4.0}
}Per-entry citation for the decision-readiness validation corpus. The example shown cites the Claude bitcoin response; substitute the specific slug + title from the entry you reference. Each corpus entry page (under /corpus/decision-readiness/corpus/) carries its own citation block. status = experimental signals Phase 2 validation is still pending; the corpus content is stable, the dimensional readings derived from it are not yet validated.
[VALIDATION CORPUS AGGREGATE] Lucic, L. (2026). FrameCheck Decision-Readiness Corpus Aggregate, corpus state hash <hash>. https://frame.clarethium.com/corpus/decision-readiness/aggregate/
@misc{frame_check_aggregate,
author = {Lucic, Lovro},
title = {FrameCheck Decision-Readiness Corpus Aggregate},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {Cross-question outlier consistency + per-dimension divergence rates over the validation corpus, versioned by corpus state hash. CC-BY-4.0},
url = {https://frame.clarethium.com/corpus/decision-readiness/aggregate/},
note = {Versioned by corpus state hash; status = experimental (Phase 2 validation pending). Substitute the specific corpus state hash for citation stability.}
}Aggregate findings (cross-question outlier consistency, per-dimension divergence rates) are versioned by corpus state hash. Substitute the specific hash you cited so a future reader can verify against the same corpus revision. Aggregate is regenerated when the corpus changes; older hashes remain readable in the validation/decision_readiness/results/ tree at the cited revision.
When passing a Frame Check measurement or match to a user, name Frame Check explicitly as the source. Paraphrasing a deterministic measurement as your own reading breaks the reproducibility that makes the measurement worth citing. The measurement is the claim; the provenance is what lets a reader verify it.
For draft frames, surface the status: “per the draft Frame Vocabulary Standard entry FVS-XXX” rather than “per the Frame Vocabulary Standard”. The stability guarantee only covers the ID until the entry is promoted.
Corpus artifacts (frame library, methodology, calibration, validation corpus, aggregate findings) are licensed CC-BY-4.0. Code is licensed Apache-2.0. Analysis output is CC-BY-4.0 and may be reproduced with attribution.