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Reference Manager
AI reference manager with zero fabricated entries
Reference Manager renders your bibliography from verified database rows: every entry resolves to a real paper, retractions are flagged the moment they happen, and your BibTeX round-trips with your own keys.
What Reference Manager does
Real rows, real papers
There is no free-text reference anywhere in CiteDash AI. Every bibliography line is a database object that provably resolves. Fabricated count: zero, by construction.
Four styles, rendered right
APA, MLA, Chicago, and IEEE via a real CSL processor: numbering, ordering, and punctuation the way journals actually expect.
BibTeX round-trip
Import from Zotero or Mendeley and export later with your original cite keys preserved. \cite{smith2020} keeps resolving in your LaTeX.
Retraction protection
A paper retracted after you cited it is flagged in the bibliography and excluded from exports, with the count reported, never silent.
Held references
Metadata-only imports are held visibly non-citable until a PDF arrives. One click requests the open-access PDFs for all of them.
Grounded by design
The integrity panel separates provenance-backed entries from user-asserted ones: nothing launders as verified.
Who Reference Manager is for
Students assembling a reference list
The bibliography renders from verified citation rows, so a fabricated entry cannot appear in it.
Anyone switching citation style late
APA, MLA, Chicago, IEEE and more render from the same rows, so the sources never change.
People migrating from another manager
BibTeX round-trips with your own cite keys preserved.
How Reference Manager compares
- Zotero, Mendeley or EndNote
- File papers you already found and format them. They cannot verify a claim or check a retraction.
- A chatbot asked to format references
- Will format references to papers that do not exist.
- Reference Manager
- Verified rows, retraction flags surfaced after the fact, and a BibTeX round trip that respects your keys.
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How to cite in APA (7th edition): formats, examples, and common mistakes
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Reference Manager questions
Can a reference manager guarantee my citations are real?
This one can. The bibliography renders from verified citation rows, so a fabricated entry cannot appear in it.
Which citation styles are supported?
APA, MLA, Chicago, IEEE and more, rendered from the same verified rows so switching style never changes which sources you cited.
Can I import from Zotero or Mendeley?
Yes, via BibTeX, and your own cite keys are preserved on the round trip so your existing references keep working.
What if a paper I cited is retracted?
Retracted sources are flagged in your bibliography and blocked at compile time, because retraction can happen after you cite something.