Batch-friendly review
Check up to 40 references at a time and keep the review manageable for essays, chapters, dissertations, and revisions.
Thesis reference checker
Audit a thesis bibliography before submission or defense
Work through a long reference list in focused batches. Identify citations that match scholarly records, metadata that needs correction, and entries that deserve a manual library search.
The checker reviews reference metadata. It does not grade a thesis, detect plagiarism, validate research claims, or replace a supervisor or librarian.
What the checker gives you
Actionable mismatch reasons
Year differences, unresolved DOIs, weak title matches, and unavailable sources are shown as distinct review signals.
Submission-safe wording
The interface avoids equating an indexing gap with fabrication, which matters when reviewing a student's or co-author's work.
A review workflow you can inspect
Review chapter by chapter
Split a long bibliography into batches of no more than 40 and retain the original order in your working document.
Investigate flagged entries
Use the linked record, DOI resolver, publisher page, and university library catalogue to resolve uncertain results.
Do a final consistency pass
After correcting metadata, separately check citation style, in-text/reference-list coverage, editions, and page ranges.
What a result does — and does not — mean
- Theses, books, conference proceedings, preprints, and local journals can have thinner metadata coverage than mainstream journal articles.
- A verified record may still be cited inaccurately or used to support a claim it does not make.
- Keep a manual review log for consequential changes, especially before a defense or final submission.
Questions before you check
How many thesis references can I check at once?+
The current beta accepts up to 40 citations per request. Split longer lists into sequential batches.
Does it check citation style?+
Not in the current release. It focuses on whether bibliographic metadata matches a scholarly record, not APA, MLA, Chicago, or Harvard formatting.
Should I delete every reference marked not found?+
No. First search the DOI, publisher, library catalogue, Google Scholar, or the original document. Not found is a review signal, not proof of fabrication.