Check your references before you submit

Free reference checking tool: it verifies every reference in your thesis or paper against open academic databases, catches AI-fabricated citations and unresolvable DOIs, finds the real record, and reformats it to the style you need (APA, Vancouver, IEEE and more).

Check your bibliography

Put each reference on its own line, or upload a .txt / .docx / .pdf file — you can also drag and drop it onto the box below. Guest: up to 5 references · Member: 20/query, 30/day · Pro: unlimited.

The selected style determines the corrected bibliography below and the copied/downloaded output.

How the tool judges a reference

#1Suspicious / fabricated

Yılmaz, A. (2023). A novel approach to early cancer diagnosis with deep learning. Journal of AI in Medicine, 12(3), 45-60. https://doi.org/10.1234/jaim.2023.045

No match in CrossRef, OpenAlex, PubMed or other academic indexes; the cited DOI could not be resolved in any database — most likely fabricated.
#2Verified

Vaswani, A., et al. (2017). Attention is all you need. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 30.

Verified against the DBLP record (2017). The record is real and was auto-formatted to your chosen style.

How it works?

Reliable bibliography in three steps.

1

Paste or upload

Paste your bibliography as text or upload a Word/PDF file. The file never leaves your device.

2

Verify

References are searched in CrossRef, OpenAlex, PubMed, Semantic Scholar and DBLP; DOIs and ISSNs are validated, and the CORE open-access archive is checked when needed. Results are classified using match strength and risk signals.

3

Fix & download

Correct metadata is formatted to your chosen style; copy or download as CSV.