Sometimes the argument is already there, but the supporting literature needs more work. Your supervisor may ask for more recent sources. A reviewer may require stronger engagement with the existing scholarship. You may also want to make sure that your literature review is current, balanced, and properly supported before submission.
Best for early drafts, thin literature sections, and "this needs a reference" notes from your supervisor.
Our Reference Finder reviews your draft to identify the field of study, citation gaps, thin literature sections, outdated sources, and claims that need stronger authority. We then search each sentence for supporting sources in credible, relevant publications for you to consider.
We read your draft and flag the statements that really should have a source behind them, the assertions an examiner or reviewer will expect you to support.
For each gap, we locate suitable authorities and confirm they genuinely exist and are on point for the claim you are making. We never suggest a source we cannot verify.
Each suggestion comes with a snapshot of the source: the exact words that may support your point, quoted with the page or paragraph they appear on, so you can confirm the fit for yourself.
Every suggested source arrives written out in your referencing style, with a compiled bibliography you can paste straight into your document.
Where possible, we also point you to the specific part of the source that may assist your argument, so that you can verify the source yourself and decide how it should be used in your work. This service is intended to support responsible academic writing. It does not invent references, misrepresent sources, or replace your own research judgement.
When your draft needs support, we go looking in the right places. We search the open web and the major academic databases, across every kind of authority.
On-point judgments and law reports for your legal claims, with the paragraph located.
The right statutory, regulatory or constitutional provision, pinpointed to the section.
Scholarly support from monographs, edited collections and peer-reviewed journal work.
Reports, working papers, policy documents and theses, where they fit the point.
Our searches draw on the open internet and trusted academic databases and indexes, including the following.
Every suggestion is checked, not guessed. We do not hand you a bare citation and leave you to hope it fits. Each source comes with a snapshot of the exact passage, quoted word for word, with its page or paragraph, so you can see for yourself that it supports your claim.
An annotated working list, delivered as a Word document, that pairs each un-supported claim with verified sources, the supporting quote, and a ready-to-use reference.
Illustrative example. Every suggestion is a source we have located and checked, with a quoted snapshot. We never propose a reference we cannot verify.
Four steps. Every suggestion is yours to accept, adapt, or set aside.
Upload your Word file and tell us your referencing style: OSCOLA, APA, Harvard, Chicago, SALJ, PELJ and others.
We work through your text and identify the claims that need a source to stand up to scrutiny.
For each gap we locate real, relevant authorities and confirm the supporting passage genuinely says what is needed.
A working list with quoted snapshots and a formatted bibliography arrives in your inbox as a Word document, ready to use.
Your documents are treated as strictly confidential and are never shared.
One flat fee per document, no subscription. You will receive a list of credible, relevant sources for you to consider, each with the exact passage that may support your point, so you can verify it and decide how to use it.
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