Elderly couple with cat and tea set
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APA citation checker

Find possible gaps between author–year citations and your reference list.

How it works

  1. 1

    Paste the paper text and reference entries separately.

  2. 2

    Rules match recognizable citations to reference candidates by first author and year.

  3. 3

    Review missing candidates, ambiguous matches, unused entries and anything the parser could not read.

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No AI or source lookup is used. This is a limited APA matching aid, not verification of author lists, punctuation, source existence or quotation pages. Organizations, abbreviations, secondary citations and nonstandard names may require manual review.

Painting: Afternoon Tea by Jean-François Rafaëlli, from Art Institute of Chicago via Unsplash.