Catch fake citations
before you submit.
AI drafts invent references that look perfect and don't exist. Paste your reference list and CiteCheck verifies every entry against real academic libraries — then hands you a corrected list.
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Devlin, J., et al. (2019). BERT: Pre-training of deep bidirectional transformers… NAACL-HLT.
Matched a real record in Crossref.
LeCun, Y., et al. (2018). Deep learning. Nature, 521(7553), 436–444.
Real paper — but the year should be 2015.
Thompson, R. K. (2021). Neural coherence in transformer-based citation synthesis. J. Comp. Linguistics.
No matching record found. Likely fabricated.
25–40%
of AI-generated citations are fabricated or wrong
6×
rise in papers with faked references over two years
< 30s
to check a full reference list
Three steps, one clean bibliography
Paste or upload
Drop in a reference list in any style, or upload a .docx, .pdf, or .pptx. We pull out every citation.
Verify against libraries
Each citation is matched against Crossref's authoritative index. Real sources get linked; fakes get flagged.
Export a corrected list
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