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Usage guide

How to use every tool on the platform — bibliography check, citation verification, style conversion, journal finder & check, thesis assistant, author search, and the alert suite.

1. Check bibliography

Paste a reference list (or upload a .txt/.docx/.pdf) and we verify each entry against scholarly databases — catching fabricated, mismatched, retracted or wrongly-formatted citations.

  1. Paste your references, or upload a file — from a full paper we auto-detect the bibliography section. .bib/.ris imports are also supported.
  2. Pick a citation style (APA 7, IEEE, Vancouver, MLA or a CSL style).
  3. Click “Check”. Each reference is checked for reality (DOI / year / authors / journal), for formatting, and against the retraction database.
  4. Read the result: a colored badge (verified / suspicious / not found) and a 0–100 confidence score per entry.
  5. Click any citation to see the matched source record and where it was found.
  6. Copy the “Repaired bibliography” (complete, in-order list — verified entries rewritten, the rest kept as-is and numbered for manual checking) or download it as Word.
  7. About to submit? Use the “Pre-submission check” card: enter the target journal and get a single Word report combining bibliography health, retractions and the journal's reliability.

2. Verify citations

One step beyond the reference check: even when a source is real, does the sentence citing it actually match what the source says? Each citation is marked Full / Partial / Unsupported / Could-not-verify.

  1. Open “Verify citations” and paste your text (or upload the file) together with its bibliography.
  2. Start the run. The bibliography is verified first, then your text is split into claims and each claim is compared, by meaning, to the cited source's abstract or full text.
  3. Watch progress — a time estimate is shown; expect 1–5 minutes depending on the number of sources.
  4. Read the report: per-citation verdicts with evidence, plus a corrected bibliography. Download as Word or CSV, or share it via link.

3. Convert style

Convert a manuscript's in-text citation markers and reference list from one citation style to another (APA ↔ IEEE ↔ Vancouver and 15+ CSL styles) — including format-preserving .docx conversion.

  1. Open “Convert style” and paste your text with its bibliography, or upload the .docx.
  2. Pick the target style; the tool detects the current style itself.
  3. Convert: in-text markers and the reference list are rewritten consistently; retracted sources found on the way are flagged.
  4. Copy the result or download the .docx — original formatting (headings, bold, tables) is preserved.

4. Find a journal

Evidence-based journal suggestions for your manuscript: we look at where similar publications actually appeared, not at keyword lists.

  1. Enter your paper's title (an abstract improves the match).
  2. Review the suggested journals — each comes with the similar publications that justify it.
  3. Filter by SJR quartile (Q1–Q4), Web of Science membership or the UBYT incentive list, and check APC / open-access details.
  4. Run “Check a journal” on your shortlist before submitting.

5. Check a journal

Verify a journal's identity, indexing status, official quartile, metrics, APC and explainable publishing-risk signals in one screen.

  1. Enter the journal's name or ISSN.
  2. Read the verdict: OpenAlex metrics, SJR quartile, Web of Science membership (SCIE/SSCI/AHCI/ESCI), TÜBİTAK UBYT incentive amount, DOAJ / ISSN-registry / TR Dizin checks and the red-flag list.
  3. The WoS quartile (JIF) is licensed and cannot be shown — check it via the Master Journal List link and your institution's JCR access.

6. Thesis / Paper Assistant

Give a topic and get a cited Introduction, Literature Review, or research-Gap analysis — grounded in the abstracts of ~50 scanned publications.

  1. Type your topic (sloppy keywords are fine — we turn them into academic search queries).
  2. Choose the mode: Introduction, Literature review, or Gap analysis.
  3. Optional: add a key paper’s DOI/title to also scan its citation neighborhood (seed + snowball).
  4. Click Generate. A fluent, cited draft is written from the publications’ abstracts.
  5. Click any [citation] to see the exact abstract it relies on — every sentence is grounded.
  6. Pick a citation style; the reference list is built automatically from only the cited works.
  7. Run “Verify & fix references” to check each source and correct its metadata.

7. Find by author

Search an author’s name and list their publications, ready to copy as formatted references.

  1. Type the author’s name (and, if helpful, a topic to narrow it).
  2. Search; matching publications are listed — pick the right person by institution, ORCID and publication count.
  3. Pick a citation style and copy the formatted references you need.

8. Alerts: citations, topics and retractions

Free weekly email alerts for academic updates — set them up on the My activity → Alerts tab.

  1. Citation alert: add your ORCID; when your publications receive new citations you get a weekly email. Every citation is vetted — the citing journal's SJR quartile, predatory-journal signals and self-citations are flagged.
  2. Topic alert: enter up to 3 topics; when new publications appear in that area you get a weekly email.
  3. Retraction tracking: automatic — if a source in a saved report, or an article citing your work, is later retracted, you get a separate notice.