Citation health

Check a bibliography before you trust it

AI assistants invent citations — plausible authors, real-looking DOIs, papers that were never written. Paste a bibliography below and each reference is checked, right here in your browser, against open scholarly metadata and the CiteStamp graph.

You will see, per reference: whether it resolves to a real work, whether it has recorded refutations from named researchers, and whether it is marked retracted by the publisher. None of these is a verdict on the work — they are checkable facts about the record, each with a source.

Your bibliography is never uploaded. Parsing happens in this browser; each reference is looked up one identifier at a time, straight from your browser to OpenAlex, Crossref, DataCite, and CiteStamp’s public graph endpoint — the same requests clicking a DOI would make. No document or reference list ever reaches us, and none is stored.

Check your references

Paste a BibTeX .bib, or one DOI or title per line. A reference list copied out of a PDF works too: wrapped lines are stitched back into whole references. Click check — your bibliography is parsed here and never uploaded.

Export the references that resolved

Pull the full record for each reference — authors, journal, volume, issue, pages — and write it out as BibTeX, RIS, or a formatted reference list. The metadata is fetched from your browser, one DOI at a time, straight from Crossref and DataCite. Your reference list is not sent to CiteStamp.

Five styles, hand-written from each manual’s own rules and checked against its published examples where it prints one — MLA, for instance, publishes no example for a dataset, so that entry follows the rules it does state. Where a record genuinely lacks a field — a chapter whose publisher deposited no editors, a book with no place of publication — the reference is written without it rather than with a guess.

Watch this bibliography

Publisher records change after you cite them. Add the references you just checked to a watchlist and CiteStamp re-checks them each time you come back — flagging any the publisher has since marked retracted, withdrawn, removed, or flagged with an expression of concern.

Your watchlist stays in this browser — CiteStamp never receives your reference list. The list of references is stored only on this device. On each visit every item is re-checked, right here in your browser, against Crossref, DataCite, and OpenAlex — the same client-direct lookups the check above makes. The re-check never sends us your references.

no references watched yet in this browser

Changed since you added it

What the checks mean

Resolves — the DOI or title was found in open scholarly metadata. A reference that does not resolve may be mistyped, paywalled out of the open record, or invented.
Recorded refutations — named researchers have signed refutes edges against this work on the CiteStamp graph. This counts the record; it is not our judgement of the work.
Marked retracted — best-effort: a retraction flag from OpenAlex, or a Crossref retraction notice. Always confirm against the publisher.

Put it in your own editor

One script, no dependencies, no build step — the same core powers the Overleaf wrapper.

<script src="https://citestamp.com/check/v1.js"></script>
<script>
  CiteStampCheck.checkBibliography(myBibText).then(function (report) {
    console.log(report.counts, report.verdicts);
  });
</script>

The global exposes parseBib, parseList, checkOne, and checkBibliography. Questions: info@citestamp.com.