# Citely tools and guides

Last updated: 2026-10-09

Every Citely tool starts from one of two workspaces. The pages below explain each use case and link into them.

## Workspaces

- [Citation Checker](https://citely.ai/citation-checker): paste a reference list and verify every citation. Opens without an account.
- [Source Finder](https://citely.ai/source-finder): paste a claim, paragraph or draft and find papers that support it. Opens without an account.

## Citation checking

- [AI Citation Checker](https://citely.ai/ai-citation-checker): check references written by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and other AI tools
- [Online Citation Checker](https://citely.ai/online-citation-checker): check whether every reference in a bibliography is real before submission
- [ChatGPT Citation Checker](https://citely.ai/chatgpt-citation-checker): catch fabricated ChatGPT references, wrong author-paper pairings and DOIs that point to a different paper
- [Fake Citation Checker](https://citely.ai/fake-citation-checker): find references that do not exist or do not match the published record
- [Reference Checker](https://citely.ai/reference-checker): verify each entry of a reference list and flag mismatched or unverifiable references

## Source finding

- [Academic Source Finder](https://citely.ai/academic-source-finder): find published papers that support a specific claim, sentence or paragraph
- [AI Source Finder](https://citely.ai/ai-source-finder): find academic sources for claims, essay drafts and research notes
- [Find Sources for Essay](https://citely.ai/find-sources-for-essay): find academic sources for the claims in an essay draft
- [Source Finder From Text](https://citely.ai/source-finder-from-text): paste a paragraph and trace it back to scholarly sources
- [Citation Finder](https://citely.ai/citation-finder): turn a claim into real, ready-to-cite references

## Verification guides

- [How to Check If a Citation Is Real](https://citely.ai/how-to-check-if-a-citation-is-real): a step-by-step manual check of DOI, title, authors, year, venue and claim support
- [Can ChatGPT Generate Fake Citations?](https://citely.ai/can-chatgpt-generate-fake-citations): why language models invent references and how to verify them
- [Citation Hallucination Patterns](https://citely.ai/citation-hallucination-patterns): fabricated DOIs, chimera references, wrong author-paper pairings and other patterns
- [Citation Verification Methodology](https://citely.ai/citation-verification-methodology): how Citely resolves identifiers, compares metadata and decides each result
- [Academic Source Verification](https://citely.ai/academic-source-verification): how to confirm that a source exists and says what it is cited for

## For developers and AI agents

- [API documentation](https://citely.ai/docs/api): REST API and MCP server for citation checks