You have written the footnotes and built the bibliography. The Reference Auditor goes through them one by one and answers the question that keeps you up the night before submission: is every reference real, correct, and actually saying what I claim it says?
Online submissions open shortly. You will send a chapter, an article, or a full thesis, and get a clear report back, not a rewrite.
A reference can look perfect and still be wrong in three different ways. We test for all three.
We confirm the source is real and traceable. This catches sources that were mis-remembered or mis-typed, and, increasingly, sources invented out of thin air by software that produces realistic-looking references for works that were never written.
Author, title, year, journal, volume, publisher, court, page span. We check the bibliographic details of each source against the record and flag anything that does not match, down to the small errors that examiners notice immediately.
This is the one most checks miss. We read the exact page or paragraph you pinpoint and confirm the source actually says what you have attributed to it, not something close, and not the opposite.
To check a reference, we have to find the real thing. We search the open web and the major academic databases, across every kind of authority your work relies on.
Judgments and law reports, verified down to the paragraph you pinpoint.
Statutes, regulations and constitutional provisions, checked section by section.
Scholarly monographs, edited collections and peer-reviewed journal articles.
Reports, working papers, policy documents and theses, where you have relied on them.
Our checks draw on the open internet and trusted academic databases and indexes, including the following.
We show our working. For every reference, we capture a snapshot of the exact passage, quoted word for word, alongside the page or paragraph it sits on. You see the evidence behind each verdict rather than having to take our word for it.
A clear, colour-coded report, delivered to your inbox as a Word document, that takes each reference in turn, gives it a verdict, and explains it in plain English.
Illustrative example. Your report covers every footnote, in-text citation and bibliography entry, with a quoted snapshot and a suggested fix for each issue.
Four steps. You stay in control of the final submission throughout.
Upload your Word file (a chapter, a paper, or the whole thesis) and tell us your referencing style: OSCOLA, APA, Harvard, Chicago, SALJ, PELJ and others.
Every footnote, in-text citation and bibliography entry is verified, one by one, against the published scholarly and legal record.
For each source, we find the exact page or paragraph you cite and check that it genuinely supports the claim you have made with it.
A colour-coded Word report lands in your inbox, every finding explained in plain English, with a quoted snapshot and a suggested fix wherever something needs attention.
Your documents are treated as strictly confidential and are never shared.
One flat fee per document. No subscription, and no per-page surprises. You will know exactly where every reference stands, with the evidence to back it, before anyone else reads your work.
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Three services touch your references, and they do three different jobs. Find the line that sounds like you — you're on the Reference Auditor now.
