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.

Paste your references, or upload a file — from a full paper we auto-detect the bibliography section. .bib/.ris imports are also supported.
Pick a citation style (APA 7, IEEE, Vancouver, MLA or a CSL style).
Click “Check”. Each reference is checked for reality (DOI / year / authors / journal), for formatting, and against the retraction database.
Read the result: a colored badge (verified / suspicious / not found) and a 0–100 confidence score per entry.
Click any citation to see the matched source record and where it was found.
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.
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.

Sources covered: journal articles, conference papers, Turkish national journals (TR Dizin, İSAM, SOBIAD), books (TO-KAT union catalog / Google Books / OpenLibrary), web sources (page-title confirmation), arXiv preprints, DOI / PubMed / Europe PMC / OpenAlex / Crossref / DBLP records. Thesis citations are checked in SOBIAD (which indexes the YÖK National Thesis Center) and, if not found, routed to the YÖK National Thesis Center.
Limits — Guest: 5 searches/day (5 references/search). Member: 20 references/day, up to 75/month (20 per search). Pro: unlimited.
A low score does not always mean fabricated — very new preprints can be under-indexed; click through and verify manually.
Tick “save to my account” to keep the report on My activity — saved reports are then watched daily for later retractions, you can share them via link, and re-runs show what changed.

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.

Open “Verify citations” and paste your text (or upload the file) together with its bibliography.
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.
Watch progress — a time estimate is shown; expect 1–5 minutes depending on the number of sources.
Read the report: per-citation verdicts with evidence, plus a corrected bibliography. Download as Word or CSV, or share it via link.

A Turkish sentence can be matched to an English source — comparison is at the meaning level.
“Could not verify” means the source's text could not be reached (paywall); it does not mean the citation is wrong.
First run is unlimited; afterwards a shared daily pool of 20 citations applies. Pro members and academic e-mail addresses (.edu / .edu.xx / .ac.xx) are exempt.

3. Convert manuscript format

Convert an entire Word manuscript to a major publisher's general submission template — document layout, typography, headings, in-text citations and references together.

Open “Manuscript format” and upload the editable .docx manuscript.
Choose a general Springer Nature, Elsevier, IEEE, Wiley, Taylor & Francis or SAGE submission template and the article type.
Convert: page layout, font, spacing, columns and heading styles are applied; in-text citations and references are verified and rewritten in the profile's citation style.
Download the converted .docx and review the target journal's current Guide for Authors before submission.
For an exact journal-specific format, request the separately priced custom service from the Contact page.

Publisher profiles are general templates; individual journals and article types may require different title pages, section order, declarations and figure placement.
Full conversion requires .docx. PDF can be inspected, but cannot reliably preserve editable document structure.
Free members have a monthly conversion quota; Pro is unlimited.

4. Find a journal

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

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

Suggestions come from OpenAlex publication data joined with Scopus CiteScore and Web of Science JCR quartiles, WoS index membership and the TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM UBYT incentive list.

5. Check a journal

Vet a journal before you submit: is it actually indexed in Scopus and Web of Science, in which quartile, has it been discontinued, and what explainable publishing-risk signals does it carry?

Enter the journal's name or ISSN. Use the ISSN for the most precise result — different journals can share a title.
Look at COVERAGE first: is it indexed in Scopus, and in which Web of Science index (SCIE/SSCI/AHCI/ESCI)? That question comes before “which quartile?”.
Then the QUARTILES: the Scopus quartile (CiteScore) and the JCR quartile are shown separately and can differ for the same journal. The per-category breakdown is included.
Read the TÜBİTAK UBYT incentive amount, the DOAJ / ISSN-registry / TR Dizin checks and the red-flag list.
For a Turkish associate-professorship application, open the “Doçentlik değerlendirmesi” section: the YÖK predatory-journal decision is applied to this journal with the quartile pre-filled.

MOST IMPORTANT WARNING: if you see “this quartile may no longer hold”, be careful — the journal shows a strong quartile but the source database no longer lists it. Quartile lists keep carrying the old value for a while after a journal is dropped.
A journal “discontinued in Scopus” is not necessarily predatory (it may have ceased publishing), but NEW articles published there will not be indexed in Scopus — decisive for incentives and promotion files.
A journal can sit in different quartiles across subject categories; check which category applies to your submission.
Red flags include: unregistered ISSN, high APC with no DOAJ listing, low impact with high APC, sudden volume spikes, very young journals with high volume, a documented hijacked-clone site, a high retraction rate.
A flag is a signal, not a verdict — combine it with your field's own lists and the library's guidance.
If you are an editor and something here is wrong, write to us from the contact link at the bottom of the page — we review and correct it.

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.

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

Sign-in is required for this tool.
This is a rapid draft from abstracts, not a systematic (PRISMA) review — verify sources before use.
The in-text citation label and the reference entry always come from the same (verified) record.

7. Find by author

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

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

Useful for building a reference list from a known author quickly.
Combine with “Check bibliography” to verify the entries you collect.

8. Alerts: citations, topics and retractions

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

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

The citation alert is ORCID-based, so there are no name mix-ups; only indexed, verifiable citations are tracked, which is why counts may be lower than Google Scholar.
The first citation-alert scan sets a baseline; emails start the following weeks with NEW citations only.