Free academic tools
Three free tools for cleaning up a reference list: check citations against real databases, sort a bibliography without touching your browser's memory of it, and convert journal titles with the evidence shown for every result.
Verifies a pasted reference list against Crossref and PubMed and flags AI-hallucinated citations.
Sorts APA, MLA, Chicago, or Harvard bibliography entries by author, year, or title without reformatting them.
Converts journal titles, abbreviations, DOIs, and ISSNs and shows the source and confidence for each result.
Every tool on this page shows its evidence source and its limits instead of asking you to trust a black box. Read the tool methodology for the sources, thresholds, batch limits, and known coverage gaps behind each result.