What's new

When you convert your bibliography, you also see how well each entry followed the chosen style — which rule was broken and why it changed.

• Rule-by-rule checks for APA 7, APA 6, Vancouver and IEEE: author format, year position, “&” and “et al.”, title case, volume(issue), DOI format, quotation marks and vol./pp. in IEEE.
• Order check: entries out of alphabetical order in author–date styles and where they belong (“entry 8 belongs at position 3”); numbering sequence in numbered styles, and first-citation order in Word files.
• If you upload a Word file, the italics of journal and book titles are checked too (italic in APA and IEEE, plain in Vancouver).
• Other styles are still converted; the screen says plainly that rule-by-rule checking is not available for them.

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The consistency tab catches two new problems.

• Ambiguous citation: when the bibliography has two works by the same author in the same year (Kaya, 2020a and 2020b), a plain “(Kaya, 2020)” in the text could be either; you are asked to add the letter.
• Numbering order: in numbered styles, sources are numbered in order of first citation; if [5] appears before [4], it is shown. The Word add-in summary includes both counts.
• A link counter in the sources tab: working, broken and not automatically checkable links, with the broken ones listed.

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If a journal name typed in Turkish or another language is not found in the indexes, the journal is also searched by its English title and shown first under “Did you mean?”, labelled “English title”.

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A manuscript you upload in one tool is kept only in your browser; when you open Citation check, Reference style, Manuscript format or Journal Finder, you are asked whether to use it.

• Journal Finder is filled with your title and abstract; Reference style moves the bibliography of a PDF into its list.
• The file is never sent to the server; it is removed from your browser after 7 days or when you click “Forget”.
• Word add-in: tables and figures after the bibliography no longer stick to the last reference; a corrected entry is shown only for references that really contain an error.

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Opening the workflow no longer sends anything to ReferenceVerify; the plugin connects only when an editor clicks a button, and summaries are added only with “Get results”. Download it from the OJS plugin page and install with Upgrade; your key is kept.

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The References and Citations tabs only check, and “fix in document” keeps your document's own style. Style changes live in the Style tab: İSNAD, journal style search, .csl upload and a re-ordered bibliography.

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Editors on DergiPark and other systems can choose the consolidated report per file and get the full report for the authors in one click.

• Three options in the right-click menu: Reference check, In-text citations, Consolidated report. Download version 1.1.0, unzip it over the same folder and reload.
• Editor tools → Author report: the full status of every reference, suggested corrections and the in-text citation consistency. Paste it into your message to the authors or attach it as a Word file.

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In OJS, choose one of three reports for each manuscript file, and send the report to the author through OJS if you want.

• Reference check, In-text citations or Consolidated report: the consolidated report verifies every reference and cross-checks in-text citations and the reference list in both directions.
• “Share with the author”: the full status of every reference and suggested corrections are added, once you approve, to an OJS discussion that includes the author.
• There is now a package for OJS 3.4 and 3.5 as well (in 3.5, in the workflow's left-hand menu). Download 1.2.0 from the OJS plugin page; on 3.3, Upgrade keeps your settings.

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A Chrome and Edge extension for DergiPark and other submission systems: right-click the manuscript file and choose “Check with ReferenceVerify” to open the reference check or Citation Check without downloading and re-uploading the file.

• The file is fetched with your own session, so any manuscript file you can see in the panel can be checked.
• On DergiPark article pages a “ReferenceVerify” button appears next to the PDF link.
• The file is sent encrypted and deleted on first open or within an hour. The extension only accesses the file you choose.

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For journals on Open Journal Systems (OJS 3.3): every manuscript file gets a “Check with ReferenceVerify” action, the file opens in one click and the result summary is written back to the submission as an editor-only discussion.

• Reviewer suggestions with conflict-of-interest flags, without leaving OJS.
• The file is transferred encrypted and deleted from our server on first open, or within an hour. Verification runs in the editor's browser.
• The site language follows OJS: English OJS opens referenceverify.com.
• Using a different submission system? Tell us; we can build an integration for it too.
• Step-by-step installation and use: Guide → “OJS Plugin: Installation and Use Guide for Journal Editors”.

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A new “Editor tools” tab in Reference check and Citation check reports.

• Revision comparison: references added, removed, fixed or newly problematic between the original and the revised manuscript; the same work is recognised even if its formatting changed.
• Author correction letter: problematic references with suggested fixes, in English or Turkish, ready to send.
• Decision summary (editors only): one page for desk review; printable and downloadable as PDF or Word.

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New editor-only tool: extracts citation requests from a reviewer report, verifies them and flags requests for the reviewer's own work, for a single journal or for weakly related sources.

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Pick one of 2,500+ journals hosted on DergiPark: the journal's author guidelines are read, its layout (font, size, spacing, headings) and reference style are applied to your document, and you get a compliance checklist of rule versus manuscript.

• Every rule is shown with a verbatim quote from the guidelines; nothing is assumed where the journal is silent.
• The Reference style tool uses the same journal choice.
• New publisher templates: MDPI, Frontiers and PLOS.

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An anonymous summary of the last 1, 3 or 6 months of checks: number of runs, trends in suspicious and not-found references, the most frequent problem types. Journal teams can share one subscription with a common allowance.

• No reference, title or journal name is stored for the report; only aggregate counts.
• Contact us for a journal team licence.

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The style list now includes political science (APSA), biology and life sciences (CSE 9), law (OSCOLA, footnotes) and the 17th edition of Chicago that some journals still require. Chicago options are now labeled “Chicago / CMOS 18”.

• Turabian is not a separate style but the student version of Chicago; use one of the Chicago options.
• Searching for “turabian” or “cmos” in the journal style search finds the right style.

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The Manuscript format tool now lets you choose a citation style independently of the publisher template: Chicago (notes and bibliography or author-date) and the Turkish İSNAD 2 style. With note styles, your in-text citations become real Word footnotes.

• The first citation of a source gets a full note, later citations a short note.
• Several sources cited at the same point are combined into one footnote.
• The reference list is rewritten as an alphabetical bibliography.

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Submitting to a journal that is not in the style list? Type the journal name; if its citation style is found, the corrected bibliography follows it.

• More than 10,000 journal styles are searchable.
• If the journal's author guidelines provide a .csl file, you can upload it directly.
• Available in the bibliography check, the Verify citations report and the Manuscript format tool.
• EndNote .ens files use a closed format and cannot be read; search by journal name instead.

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You can now save your ORCID, institution, Web of Science ResearcherID and Scopus Author ID on the My account page.

• Find by author shows a “My publications” shortcut; in the results, the person whose ORCID matches yours is listed first and marked “you”.
• Your ORCID is shared with the citation alert: if you change it in your profile, the alert follows the new ID.

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Example scenarios now sit below the input box and are clearly optional, so it is obvious that you start with your own text.

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No more copy and paste. The “Check Bibliography” button on the Word ribbon reads the reference section of your document; results appear in the pane on the right with the same colors and corrected entries as on the website.

• Only the section after the “References / Bibliography” heading is read; the rest of the document is never sent.
• REQUIRED VERSION: Microsoft 365 Word, Word 2021 or later, or Word on the web. Perpetual Office 2016/2019 (Professional Plus and similar) do not work — they open the pane in the old Internet Explorer engine. Check File → Account → Product Information; the 16.0 version number is the same in both, so it is misleading.
• For organization accounts an admin uploads it once and it appears in everyone's Word.

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The tool's most frequent answer used to be “your sentence is not directly supported as written”. That was accurate, but it left you holding several half-matching sources with no way forward. Not any more.

• The statements each source can actually carry are listed one by one; you tick the ones you want.
• The tool merges them into a single sentence with each source's citation placed after the clause it supports, followed by the reference list.
• Whatever the sources do not say is shown separately: “this part was left out, because none of the statements you ticked says it.”
• The sentence produced is NOT your original sentence verified — it is a new sentence limited to what the sources support, and the screen says so plainly.
• Changing the citation style (APA, IEEE, Vancouver, TÜBİTAK, TÜSEB) reformats the sentence and the reference list instantly.
• Repeating the same search returns the same sources: results no longer shift from run to run, and repeat searches come back faster.

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We do not GUESS a conference name from your topic: we look at where papers on the same topic were actually published and list those conferences.

• Every card has a “Why was this suggested?” section showing the matching papers with links.
• Whether the proceedings are indexed in Scopus, which years are covered, whether the series runs every year, and whether next year's volume is already on the list — all of it sits on the card.
• For Turkish users we also show which conferences authors based in Türkiye have submitted to on the same topic. That is a sign of reach, not a measure of quality.
• General-purpose series that publish from every field (IOP, AIP, Web of Conferences) drop to the bottom and are labeled for what they are.
• Dates and paper deadlines are shown ONLY for events we can verify: there is no broad, free source of conference calendars, and we do not display a date we cannot stand behind.
• If your field barely publishes at conferences the tool says so and points you to Find a Journal instead.
• Conference organisers and members who want to tell their colleagues can add a conference; a submitted entry never appears in search results until an editor approves it, and a source link is required.

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Enter the manuscript title (and abstract if you have one) and we list reviewer candidates who have published on that topic in recent years, with their ORCID, institution and the evidence for why they are a candidate (sample publications with years). Unlike self-declared reviewer pools this is based on the publication record: a person's field changes over time, their record does not. If you also enter the manuscript's authors, candidates who co-published with them in recent years or work at the same institution are flagged as a conflict of interest and pushed to the end of the list — never removed, because the decision is yours. If one of a candidate's pooled publications has been retracted, that is shown too. Each candidate's output for the current year appears as a workload hint; a very high number usually means the person is busy. For Turkish topics, supervisors of related theses and authors of articles in national indexes are added to the pool. You can filter the list (with ORCID only, Türkiye-based only), copy it, or download it as Word to paste into your journal system. We do not provide contact details: we give identity and ORCID, and you send the invitation from your own system. The screen is the second tab of Find by Author; guests get one trial search and members five per month.

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Type the conference name, its acronym (e.g. IMCET) or the proceedings ISBN and see, year by year, whether its proceedings are indexed in Scopus — straight from Elsevier's official source list. We deliberately do not hand out a “Scopus indexed conference” badge: Scopus indexes the venue the proceedings appear in, not the conference, and that changes from year to year — the 2022 proceedings may be covered while 2024 is not. The screen shows which years were found, the proceedings volumes with their ISBNs, the covered year range where available, and whether the series has been discontinued. Three warnings also appear: if the most recent indexed volume is years old the conference is flagged as possibly dormant (a series with a regular past that then disappears has either ceased or is no longer covered); general-purpose series that publish papers from every field — IOP, AIP, Web of Conferences and the like — are marked, because publishing there gives you Scopus coverage but no standing in your field; and the proceedings publisher is named. If next year's volume is already on the list you see that too — for that year the answer is not a guess. We also state the difference between “not on the list for this year” and “will not be indexed”: this year's proceedings may simply not be published yet. Check it in a minute before you spend money and time on a conference's own claim.

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When you upload PDFs of closed-access sources, a table now shows which file was matched to which reference, with the reason (DOI, or title and author), and you can correct any match in one click. If a file cannot be matched confidently it is no longer assigned to an arbitrary reference: it is set aside and you are offered the three most likely candidates — a wrongly matched full text is more harmful than a missing one. In the results, each claim now shows the page its evidence came from (“your PDF · p. 7”), so you can open the source and confirm it in seconds. If a claim cannot be found in the full text you supplied, that is no longer lumped together with “could not access”; it is reported separately as “Not found in your PDF”. PDF contents are never dumped on screen and never stored; if you reopen a saved report to re-check it, you are reminded to upload the files again.

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Paste a sentence behind a suspicious reference or unsupported citation to get a real scholarly source with direct evidence, a verbatim excerpt from the full text or abstract, a citation in the style you choose, and revised wording the source can safely support. Turkish national literature and international literature are searched together: if your claim is verified in both, you see both sources side by side and decide which one your text needs. Retracted works are removed from the candidate pool, and results are kept in My Activity.

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TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM's open access (Read & Publish) agreements with Wiley, Springer Nature and Cambridge University Press now appear in Find a Journal and Check a Journal. On roughly 4,000 journals you will see "may be covered by the TÜBİTAK agreement" next to the fee, and Find a Journal can filter down to those journals. We do not promise a waiver: the annual quota may be used up, your institution must be an EKUAL member and you must be the corresponding author — the conditions are stated on the card.

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About 38% of Web of Science journals are in ESCI, which does not count the same as SCI-E in Turkish promotion criteria. Find a Journal now separates the two and groups results accordingly. Filters also moved out of the search form to the top of the results: index, minimum quartile (optionally pinned to Scopus or WoS alone), access, APC and publisher — each option shows how many journals would remain. Quick picks such as "Free to publish" apply several filters at once, and every one of them states on screen exactly what it filtered.

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The second question when choosing a journal is usually "how long will it take". For more than 35,000 journals you can now see the average time from submission to publication and the review type (double anonymous, open review…) on both the Find a Journal cards and the Check a Journal table, plus a "fastest process" sort. This figure is the journal's own declaration, not our measurement — and it is labeled as such, because most publishers do not share acceptance dates.

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Türkiye's decision on predatory journals is a rule, not a list of names — until now applying it to your own journal was manual work. Check a Journal now walks you through it in a few questions and tells you which clause your journal falls under. The result cites the decision itself and is included in the report you copy.

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Cloned journal websites copy the real journal's title and ISSN, collect fees, and never publish your article. Check a Journal now shows the fake address next to the genuine one whenever a documented clone exists. You also see how many articles the journal has had retracted, and — if it was withdrawn from DOAJ — the stated reason, clearly marked when that reason is merely administrative.

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On busy days, account verification, password reset, report and alert emails could be delayed. Messages that hit the daily sending limit now go out straight away over a second delivery route, so your verification email never sits waiting when you sign up.

On the author search page, once you have confirmed the right person, choose “Follow this author”. You'll get a weekly email when that researcher publishes something new — only work that appears after you start following, never their back catalog. Free membership covers 1 author, Pro covers 10.

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Turkish books from publishers with plain names are now also searched in the national union catalogue. And when an index returns the right title with the WRONG DOI, we detect it and keep that DOI out of your corrected reference — a wrong DOI is worse than a missing one.

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Every saved bibliography report now has a “Re-check” button. The same list is verified again and you only see WHAT CHANGED: sources retracted since your last check, entries that can now be verified, and corrected record details. Built for people who return to the same bibliography for months while writing a thesis.

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Every bibliography you save to your account is now quietly monitored: if one of its sources is retracted later, we email you. Your citation style, your institution's custom reference format and your target journal are also remembered, so you don't retype them each visit.

Most education journals don't use DOIs, so their articles were missing from the major indexes and were unfairly marked “unverified”. We now also query an international education-research database, so articles in journals like TOJET are verified.

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You can now see whether a journal is covered by Web of Science indexes (SCI-E, SSCI, ESCI…) directly in the results, and filter by these criteria in the journal finder.

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