Dear Ganafagol, Science does not work exactly as you have described. References to scientific papers come afterward. Sometimes it has taken considerable time

Dear Ganafagol, Science does not work exactly as you have described. References to scientific papers come afterward. Sometimes it has taken considerable time for references to appear. Also, references to other work in a scientific article appear in context of how the references relate to the subject of the article. Science is not based on authorities per se. Instead, the community works things out over time. Sometimes a consensus will form. Aristotelian physics lasted for a long time. However, consensus may dissolve or be replaced with a revised consensus. For example, Newtonian physics was revised in relativistic physics.