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Fact-check your draft: every citation, one paste
Paste a chapter or paper, including its reference list. Every reference is matched against real scholarly catalogs and screened for retractions, and every in-text citation is paired with its entry. Fabricated references, retracted papers, wrong years, and citations with no reference: all surfaced before an examiner finds them.
The two questions every reference must survive
The first is existence: does this citation resolve to a real paper? AI writing assistants fail this constantly, producing perfectly formatted references to papers that were never written, and examiners now check for exactly that. The second is fidelity: does the real paper actually say what your sentence claims? This page answers the first question for free. The second takes reading the full text of every cited paper, which is what the CiteDash Fact Checker does when you sign in: it fetches each paper, reads it, and verifies your claims sentence by sentence with the exact supporting quote.
Next: check what the papers actually say
A citation can be real, unretracted, and still wrong, because the paper does not support the sentence it is attached to. In CiteDash, the Fact Checker reads the cited papers and verifies every claim against their full text.
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Fact Check My Draft FAQ
What does 'no matching paper found' mean?
The reference was searched against Crossref's index of scholarly literature and nothing matched it with confidence. Real papers virtually always match; a reference that matches nothing is the classic signature of an AI-fabricated citation. It can also mean the entry is badly mangled or carries the wrong year, so verify it against the original source before assuming the worst.
How is this different from the bibliography checker?
The bibliography checker takes only a reference list and checks DOIs. This tool takes your whole draft: it also reads your prose, finds every in-text citation like (Smith, 2021) or [3], pairs each one with its reference entry, and flags citations that have no entry and entries you never actually cite.
Does it check whether the papers actually support my claims?
Not on this page. This free check verifies that each reference is a real, unretracted paper with matching details. Verifying that a paper actually says what your sentence claims requires reading its full text, which the CiteDash Fact Checker does for signed-in users, sentence by sentence, with the exact supporting quote.
Is my draft stored?
No. The text is checked and the results returned; nothing you paste is logged or kept.
What citation styles does it understand?
Author-year styles (APA, Harvard, and relatives): (Smith, 2021), Smith et al. (2021), and grouped citations. Numbered styles (IEEE, Vancouver): [3] and ranges like [1-4]. Footnote-based styles like Chicago notes are not yet paired in text, but the reference list itself is still fully checked.