Academic Manuscript Integrity Engine

Write with absolute academic confidence.

CitePilot audits manuscripts in real time for missing references, unsupported claims, and retracted sources — ensuring every citation stands up to peer review.

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Example document. Click a highlight to see the fix.

Manuscript
69words•485chars
Introduction Sequence models reshaped natural language processing (Vaswani et al. 2017). In our evaluation, accuracy improved by 42.8% after the pipeline change. Transformer architectures remain the default for transfer learning (Devlin et al., 2019). References Devlin, J., Chang, M.-W., Lee, K., & Toutanova, K. (2018). BERT: Pre-training of deep bidirectional transformers. NAACL. He, K., Zhang, X., Ren, S., & Sun, J. (2016). Deep residual learning for image recognition. CVPR.
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4 open findings

4 total detected

Citations
1
Style
1
Uncited claims
1
References
1

Findings

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Citationhigh
Year does not match the reference list

“(Devlin et al., 2019)”

Uncited claimmedium
Result reported without a source

“In our evaluation, accuracy improved by 42.8%…”

Stylelow
Missing comma before year

“(Vaswani et al. 2017)”

Referencelow
Reference is never cited

“He, K., Zhang, X., Ren, S., & Sun, J. (2016).…”

What CitePilot checks

Specific findings you can act on

Every audit lists the exact citation, claim, and reference problems it found — with a suggested fix for each, and no score to interpret.

01 · CITATIONS

Check every citation against your reference list

CitePilot matches each in-text citation to an entry in your reference list, and checks your reference entries against Crossref and OpenAlex records.

Flags in-text citations with no matching reference
Reports year, title, and DOI differences from the record
Checks formatting against your chosen style (APA, MLA, IEEE, and more)
02 · CLAIMS

Find claims that need a source

CitePilot reads your text and flags factual, historical, and statistical statements that are asserted without a citation, pointing to the exact sentence.

Detects empirical and statistical claims without a source
Points to the paragraph and sentence
Suggests where a citation marker belongs
03 · REFERENCES

Check sources for retraction and reuse

Cited works are checked for retraction and expression-of-concern notices, and every reference-list entry is checked to see whether it is actually cited.

Retraction and expression-of-concern checks via Crossref
Finds reference-list entries that are never cited
Reports the age distribution of your sources
How it works

Upload, and read the results in minutes

One pipeline, four stages — from a raw document to an annotated, citation-by-citation report.

01

Upload your draft

Word or PDF, any length. CitePilot parses structure, footnotes and your reference list automatically.

02

Citations get extracted

Every in-text citation is matched to its entry in your reference list, in whichever style you wrote it in.

03

Sources get verified

Each reference is checked against Crossref metadata, and retracted sources are flagged automatically.

04

Review, annotated

Get your manuscript back with every issue marked in place, and a plain-language note for each.

Citation styles

Write in the style your field expects

CitePilot's style engine understands the formatting conventions and punctuation rules of nine citation styles, so it flags real errors — not just stylistic variation.

APA 7
APA 6
MLA
Harvard
Vancouver
Chicago
IEEE
OSCOLA
Turabian

Sources checked against: Crossref · DOI.org

For institutions

CitePilot for universities & research groups

Give every student and researcher the same citation checks. Manage accounts for a department or campus, and keep a shared view of what your teams are publishing.

Trusted by Researchers

Used by academics worldwide

From PhD students to senior journal editors, researchers trust CitePilot before every submission.

“CitePilot caught three fabricated citations in my systematic review that my co-authors and I had all missed. It saved us from a humiliating post-publication correction.”
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Senior Researcher, Public Health
University of Ghana
“I run every student dissertation chapter through CitePilot before approval. The Crossref verification alone is worth the subscription — it flags mismatched DOIs instantly.”
Prof. Elena Marchetti
Dissertation Supervisor
University of Bologna
“As a journal reviewer, I recommended CitePilot to our editorial board. It identified two retracted source citations in a manuscript we nearly accepted. Incredible tool.”
Dr. James Okafor
Peer Reviewer & Associate Editor
Journal of Academic Integrity
Simple Pricing

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Perfect for quick citation checks and reference list inspection.

  • Up to 3 manuscript audits per day
  • All 9 citation style checks
  • Up to 5,000 words & 100 references
  • Basic citation explanations
  • PDF & annotated DOCX exports
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Built for students writing theses and dissertations.

  • Unlimited manuscript & reference audits
  • All citation styles — APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard & more
  • Unlimited words & references
  • Export PDF diagnostic reports & annotated DOCX
  • Detailed AI explanations on every finding
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  • Unlimited Manuscript & Reference Audits
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  • All 9 citation styles & style rule inspection
  • Annotated DOCX & PDF Diagnostic Reports
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