Verify student submissions at scale or check your own work to ensure academic integrity.
Co-developed with faculty
Step 1
Paste whole reference list or BibTeX entries at once without thinking about formatting or accidentally including page numbers.
Step 2
Do you want to find every typo? High strictness. Do you want to reduce noise and focus on the really problematic citations? Medium strictness. Your choice!
Step 3
BibSafe recognizes your input automatically and compares it to more than 250 million sources in various databases.
Step 4
BibSafe takes over the detective work and searches the web for you. This way, you are not stuck with a list of false negatives and tedious Google searches.
See example results below 👇
Finished: 2 of 3 references validated. 1 reference requires review (33%).
Byron, K., Khazanchi, S., & Nazarian, D. (2010). The relationship between strain and creativity: A meta-analysis examining competing theoretical models. The Journal of applied psychology, 95(1), 201–212.
Warning: Matched some fields (authors, year, volume, issue, pages), but title does not exactly match (94% similarity). Marked as validated via medium strictness (70%+).
Deci, E. L., & Ryan, R. M. (1985). The general causality orientations scale: Self determination in personality. Journal of Research in Personality, 19(2), 109–134.
Validated via OpenAlex: matched core fields (title, authors, year) and 4 others (containerTitle, volume, issue, pages).
Grajzel, K., Acar, S., & Singer, G. (2023). Creativity in context. New York: Routledge.
Title found in Crossref but authors/year did not match. BibSafe already searched the web, but did not find a better match.
BibSafe can make errors. Please review the evidence yourself.
Version history
We are working full-time on improving BibSafe across the whole review process:
2026-03-16
Added concurrent processing to massively reduce processing time. Even large batches of 100 references finish in less than three minutes.
2026-03-05
Added detailed results overview to further reduce manual review time. Reached 200 users and implemented billing to stay economically sustainable.
2026-02-16
Added CAPTCHA, SSRF protection, and safer URL handling.
2026-02-05
Added BibTeX input for faster processing and a filter for flagged references to speed up manual review.
2026-01-06
Improved URL retrieval, PDF matching, and submission stability.
2025-12-19
Added saved submission history and Google Scholar support.
2025-12-11
Added PDF-aware search to retrieve more details from online PDF sources.
2025-12-03
Introduced configurable strictness settings to reduce manual review time by 10% and further improved matching logic.
2025-11-21
Added Open Library and improved handling of difficult titles.
2025-11-18
Improved verification success with AI-powered web search, reducing manual review time by more than 20%.
2025-11-16
Improved scoring logic and matching rules.
2025-11-15
Launched the first usable BibSafe beta with streaming verification.
Why BibSafe
BibSafe finds unreliable citations automatically with precise checks for every reference list.
Match every reference against trusted scholarly indexes in seconds, directly inside your review workflow.
BibSafe flags low-validity entries and hallucinated citations, letting you focus on what needs attention first.
Receive instant DOI numbers and authoritative links so you can open the correct publication immediately.
BibFoxYou can use the former BibSafe tool on the new website. Your login stays the same.