Usage guide
How to use all three tools — verify references, write a cited draft, and find sources by author.
1. Check bibliography
Paste a reference list (or upload a .txt/.docx) and we verify each entry against scholarly databases — catching fabricated, mismatched or wrongly-formatted citations.
- Paste your references, or upload a file — from a full paper we auto-detect the bibliography section.
- 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) and for formatting.
- 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.
- Fix flagged entries with one click — the corrected, canonical citation replaces yours.
- Sources covered: journal articles, conference papers, books (Google Books / OpenLibrary), arXiv preprints, DOI / PubMed / OpenAlex / Crossref / DBLP records.
- Limits — Guest: 5 searches/day (5 references/search). Member: 20 searches/day, up to 75/month (20 references/search). Pro: unlimited.
- A low score does not always mean fabricated — very new preprints can be under-indexed; click through and verify manually.
2. 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.
3. 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 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.