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Is your bibliography really correct?

Verify Academic References, Citations, Evidence and Journals

How to use this tool

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. Click “Verify”. Each reference is checked for reality (DOI / year / authors / journal), for formatting, and against the retraction database.
  3. Read the result: a colored badge (Verified / Unverified / Suspicious) and a 0–100 confidence score per entry.
  4. Click any citation to see the matched source record and where it was found.
  5. Download the check report (Word) or export as CSV, BibTeX or RIS. To restyle the citations and references in your Word file, use the “Reference style” tab.
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What you get back

Every reference is searched in the academic indexes and marked with one of three outcomes:

Verified#1

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

A record was found and the title, authors and year match. The reference is real and was reformatted to your chosen style.

Unverified — please check#2

Devlin, J., et al. (2018). BERT: Pre-training of deep bidirectional transformers for language understanding. NAACL.

The source was searched but there is no certain match — the title matches while the year differs (record says 2019). Not necessarily wrong; check by hand before submission.

Suspicious / fabricated#3

Doe, J. (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 any other index; the DOI does not resolve in any database — most likely fabricated.

Our study: in 53 of 100 theses approved in 2026, at least one reference had a broken DOI. Read the study →

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