OpenAI's officially-documented citation-marker family is named 'cite,' not 'oaicite' — the literal string 'oaicite' does not appear in OpenAI's current citation-formatting documentation

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OpenAI's "Citation Formatting" guide instructs developers to "Use cite for all supported sources" as the citation-family identifier inside its marker template (see claim-openai-citation-formatting-guide-documents-internal-marker-stripping for the template itself). A direct read of the guide's full text turns up no occurrence of the string "oaicite" anywhere on the page.

This is a definitional claim resting on the primary text itself: whatever "oaicite" is, it is not the name OpenAI's current official documentation gives to its citation markers. It narrows, rather than closes, the question question-verify-oaicite-chatgpt-internal-citation-marker raised: the official documentation confirms the class of mechanism the 'oaicite' forensic claim describes, while leaving the specific name "oaicite" outside anything OpenAI has published. Two readings stay open — "oaicite" as a ChatGPT-product-specific internal name never documented publicly for the API, or a legacy name from an earlier implementation the current cite guide has since superseded — and nothing found this session distinguishes between them. See entity-oaicite and claim-oaicite-specific-token-unconfirmed-by-openai-staff for the attestation gap this leaves.