11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise: inserting an annotation into the electronic document corresponding to text determined not to correspond to a valid citation pattern, wherein the text includes one or more identified citation components.
1. A system for determining valid citation patterns in text within an electronic document, the system comprising: a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing instructions to direct the processor to perform operations comprising: accessing, from the memory, a citation pattern comprising a set of citation components that define a predetermined pattern, each citation component being associated with a set of citation component criteria, comparing text in the electronic document with the citation components of the predetermined pattern, and determining valid citation patterns by identifying text that corresponds to the set of citation components of the predetermined pattern.