Citely

About Citely

Citely is a citation checker and source finder aimed at the specific failure mode that generative writing tools introduced into academic work: references that look correct and do not exist. You paste a passage and Citely checks each reference against live academic databases, flagging fabricated or altered citations, and works in the other direction as well by finding the original source for a claim that has been quoted without attribution. It integrates with CrossRef, PubMed, arXiv and Google Scholar rather than relying on a snapshot index, and the vendor states coverage of more than 160 million papers. Output can be exported in APA, MLA and Chicago formats. The pricing is unusual for the category in that the primary units are characters and credits rather than documents: Find Source works on passages up to 300 characters, and Verify References scales from 2,000 to 4,000 characters depending on tier, so a long manuscript is checked in sections. There is a one-off trial purchase for people who need a single check rather than a subscription, a monthly and yearly plan for ongoing work, and a pay-once multi-year tier. The audience is researchers, graduate students and editors who need to establish that a bibliography is real before submission.

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