Verify your references against public scholarly records before they reach reviewers. CiteGeist identifies inaccurate, incomplete, or unverifiable citation details, helping you submit with greater confidence.
References
Reference reportingCitation health
CompleteCitations found
4
Entries detected from the current text.
Citations processed
4
Entries that have been verified in Step 3.
Verified
2
Entries verified automatically or confirmed manually.
Needs review
2
Possible (1), unverified (1), and awaiting (0) entries.
Coverage
50%
Overall confidence score for the batch.
Bibliographies grow for months, get merged across co-authors, and get edited the night before a deadline. The errors that slip in are small, and they're the first thing reviewers and editors notice.
Printable report
A shareable PDF of the full results: field-level coverage, match status, and flagged entries.
A full-field pass compares your entry to the matched record, then takes you straight to the fields that need correcting.
Five steps, with a chance to review and override at each one.
Step 1
Pasted or uploaded references are detected and separated into individual entries.
Step 2
Each entry is parsed into authors, year, title, journal and more. Override text or add and remove fields first.
Step 3
Check selected references or all at once against public scholarly records, with URL checks for websites and software.
Step 4
Results are labeled verified, possible match, or unverifiable, with close alternatives and style notes.
Step 5
Export a timestamped, printable report for submission, editorial, or reviewer workflows.
Style-aware checks also report truncation and abbreviation consistency, including ISO 4 and NLM journal abbreviations (for example, a full journal name used where the abbreviated form is expected).
Whether you’re writing, reviewing, or publishing — your bibliography should be the last thing you worry about.
Researchers & Authors
Clean up a manuscript’s reference list before journal or conference submission. Catch mismatched metadata, missing fields, and phantom citations in one pass.
“Submitting to three journals. Each has different formatting requirements and 80+ references from four co-authors.”
Graduate Students
Check your thesis or dissertation bibliography, then share the printable report with your advisor or committee before your defence.
“My advisor flagged a wrong year in chapter 3. I need to verify all 200+ references before the final submission.”
Editors & Publishers
Flag unverifiable or mismatched references at intake, so authors can correct before the problem reaches a reviewer.
“Three submissions this month had DOIs that pointed to the wrong paper entirely.”
Peer Reviewers
Confirm that cited works exist and match what the manuscript claims. Nothing from your session is stored or shared with CiteGeist.
“A key citation claims a 2019 result I can’t verify. I need to check without uploading the full manuscript.”
CiteGeist matches each reference against public scholarly records using identifiers like DOI, title, and author list, then compares every field on your entry against the matched record. Website and software citations get a URL authenticity check.
The flagged field is shown next to the matched record's value so you can accept the correction or keep your original. Nothing changes without your approval.
No. Verification is rule-based matching and field comparison with user oversight at every stage. No language model decides whether a reference is valid.
No. Data from the reference checking flow is not stored by CiteGeist and stays local to your session, with no data egress from the review process.
Drop .bib or .txt files, paste BibTeX, or paste formatted references in APA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, Vancouver, MLA and other common styles.
Yes. Export a printable, timestamped report covering field-level coverage, match status, and flagged entries.
Yes. Verification runs on any CiteGeist library regardless of where it came from. See the migration guide to bring your library in first.
CiteGeist carries your sources from first search to final submission — each stage handing off cleanly to the next, so a pre-submission check never touches your working library.
Discover
For finding and screening sources
Search, screen, and organize papers into a working set, with notes and tags carried along as you narrow down what belongs in your bibliography.
Streamline Your Literature ReviewsOrganize
For the references you write with
A reference management workspace with plugins for your writing tools, built for public preprints, peer-reviewed papers, and citations to websites or software.
Meet Your New Reference ManagerVerify
For pre-submission and editorial review
Drop a .bib or .txt file, paste BibTeX, or paste a formatted reference list to validate it before submission or during peer review. Nothing from the session is stored.
One pass over your reference list. Free to start, nothing stored.