Citations for Content Chunks

Verify the accuracy of AI responses grounded in your unstructured data with inline citations for content chunks. When you create a search index in Data Cloud, the index creates citations for each chunk.

Data Cloud adds these citations for unstructured data.

File Type	Citations
PDF	Page number, file type
Excel	Page number, page name, and file type
PowerPoint	Page number, file type
Audio and video files	Start and end time stamps, file type
Other file formats	File type

Citations use this JSON structure.

PDF
```
{
  type: pdf,
  page_number: 1
}
```

Excel

{
  type: xlxs,
  page_number: 1,
  page_name: Sheet1
}

Audio and video files

{
  type: mp4,
  start_time: 0.0,
  end_time: 10.4
}

Note If you have existing search indexes, rebuild those indexes for Data Cloud to add the citation__c field to the chunk DMO and populate it with citations.