Reference check for scientific manuscripts
Every citation has a reference. Every reference is cited.
Upload a PDF. CitationCheck reads the reference list and the citations in the text, matches them one by one and applies the rules of your journal style: missing and uncited references, wrong years, author mismatches, sorting and formatting.
Look first, pay when you want the report
Create an account, upload a PDF and see how much citations and references was found and what the report costs. One account works on CitationCheck and TaxoCheck.
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The reference list is split into entries and every in-text citation is found: Smith 2020, (Smith and Jones, 2019a, b), Brown et al. (2018) or [1–3]. Authorities of taxon names are recognised and left out.
Matches them
Each citation is looked up in the list: author, co-author, year and the a/b letters. You see what is missing, what is never cited, and where the year or the authors disagree.
Knows your style
Pensoft / ZooKeys, APA 7 and numeric systems: sorting of the list, initials, commas, “and” or “&”, “et al.”, DOI links.
Price
€0.05 per citation or reference, minimum €2.00 per document, paid by card for each check. You receive an invoice for that check. If a check fails technically the payment is refunded automatically.