Verify, correct, and build reference lists — no AI, no nonsense
CitationWizard.net checks your citations against public citation databases. It finds missing DOIs, identifies incorrect ones, fills in publication details, and lets you build a complete reference list in any major citation style. Everything runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded anywhere.
📝 Citation Validation
Paste the full text of your finished manuscript. CitationWizard.net finds every in-text citation and matches them to your reference list. No more wondering if those lists are the same.
📋 Reference Checker
Paste a reference list. CitationWizard.net verifies every DOI, finds missing ones, and shows you a corrected bibliography ready to download or paste in to your document. That preprint now has a volume, issue, and updated year.
🔗 Reference Builder
Have a paper with in-text citations only? Paste it in. CitationWizard.net extracts the in-text citations, and adds them to the LiveSearch until you've found them all. If you are someone who has a huge reference list that you copy-paste from, just add it to the end, CitationWizard.net will use what it finds and delete the rest.
🔍 Live Search
Need to build a reference list for a paper or a class? Type an author name and a word from the title — see matching articles instantly. Press Enter to add it to your reference list.
Find Connections
Clicking on a citation displays works that cite it, or are cited by it. Click an author to see their affiliations and publications. Click to add any work to your reference list. Download freely available PDFs with one click, and the author-year-title for you to paste in as a filename.
🏗️ Bibliography Builder
Search by article, journal, author, or year. Add results in bulk. Get a formatted bibliography in APA, MLA, Chicago, Unified Linguistics, or any style supported by Zotero.
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