Reference Checker

Paste your manuscript and its reference list. Every in-text citation is mapped to its reference, mismatches and missing entries are highlighted, and each reference is looked up in CrossRef and OpenAlex to catch ones that may be hallucinated or retracted.

1. Manuscript text — with in-text citations

2. Reference list — one reference per line

Verify references online (CrossRef + OpenAlex)

Runs in your browser and nothing is stored. With online verification on, only your reference entries are sent to the free CrossRef and OpenAlex scholarly databases — never your manuscript text.

Summary

Your text, highlighted

Matched & verified Check details (year, spelling, DOI) Not in reference list Possibly hallucinated / retracted Matched, not verified online

Click a highlighted citation to jump to its reference. Hover for details.

Citation → reference map

Reference list check

How to read this: “Possibly hallucinated” means no matching record was found in CrossRef or OpenAlex, or the DOI points to a different paper. Books, reports, theses, websites and very recent papers are often not indexed, so those are marked “Not indexed — check manually” rather than flagged. Always confirm a flag before removing a reference.

Corrected reference list (APA 7)

Entries confirmed in CrossRef/OpenAlex are rebuilt from the database record (highlighted). Others are kept as you wrote them. Check capitalisation of titles: APA uses sentence case.