# Citations which are not useful/relevant to the query

**URL:** <https://community.perplexity.ai/t/citations-which-are-not-useful-relevant-to-the-query/88>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [May 15, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/citations-which-are-not-useful-relevant-to-the-query/88 "2025-05-15T00:14:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![vikvang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/67e7ee/32.png) [@vikvang](https://community.perplexity.ai/u/vikvang)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/citations-which-are-not-useful-relevant-to-the-query/88/1 "2025-05-15T00:14:57Z")

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The field `response.choices[0].message.content` returned a text that says that only **two** links were found relevant but the `citations` array contained **5** links.

Indeed only the first two were relevant, and I have no clue how were the other 3 chosen…

Is there a way to instruct the LLM to return only relevant citations?

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**Author:** ![vikvang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/67e7ee/32.png) [@vikvang](https://community.perplexity.ai/u/vikvang)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/citations-which-are-not-useful-relevant-to-the-query/88/2 "2025-05-15T00:14:59Z")

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Or is there a way to get more than 5 citations?