Citation evidence, not guesswork
VCite checks whether academic works exist, compares titles, authors, years, journals, and DOIs, and takes you directly to the original evidence.
Chrome extension · Works with selected text, pasted references, and citations on the current page
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01 / Core capabilities
VCite does not generate a reference that merely looks correct. It finds trusted records, reconstructs the metadata, and shows you the differences.
VCite uses a DOI for an exact lookup when available. Without one, it searches for candidates by title, author, year, and source.
Titles, authors, years, journals, and DOIs are checked separately, so you can see what matches, nearly matches, or conflicts.
Every conclusion links to the original Crossref, DataCite, or DOI page for further review.
Extract multiple references from selected text, a pasted passage, or the current page, then review and verify them together.
02 / How it works
Identify titles, authors, years, journals, DOIs, and URLs across different citation formats.
Query open scholarly infrastructure for candidate records and retain the source response.
Normalize case, punctuation, HTML, hyphens, and journal abbreviations before comparing each field.
Classify each citation as verified, inconsistent, not found, or potentially fabricated, with links to the original records.
03 / Clear boundaries
What VCite checks
What VCite does not claim
04 / Evidence sources
Privacy by restraint
The current version requires no account, builds no user profile, sets no website trackers, and does not store submitted citation text in an application database.
