Authority in citing sources
Scribbr’s citation tools and articles about citing sources help more than 2 million students every month.
Getting your citations right is an important but time-consuming process. Mistakes are easy to make but hard to spot.
At Scribbr, you can choose between two services to perfect your citations:
Our citation experts add comments, point out inconsistencies, and provide helpful tips.
Our citation experts are familiar with all common citation styles and adhere to your university’s requirements.
Our citation experts correct every error and format your bibliography.
Whether APA, Harvard, or German citation style: Our experts are very familiar with different citation styles.
They make sure that
Books, websites, and articles—each type of source has its own format, and it’s hard to keep track of all the details. Luckily, we can help you with this.
This is what we need from you:
The interactive APA Citation Checker report lets you fix errors quickly.
For a one-time fee, you can upload your file as many times as you need in order to fix any mistakes.
The tool checks your bibliography and text citations and sees if they match up.
Citations can be tricky, and it’s easy to overlook mistakes. Is it (Brown et al 2020) or (Brown et al., 2020)? Don’t worry — our AI-powered scan will catch the smallest mistakes, including:
You’re putting the final touches on your paper, but you still need to check your citations. Last-minute troubleshooting is stressful and time-consuming, just when there are other things you’d rather focus on.
The APA Citation Checker detects missing references in your document. Accidental plagiarism doesn’t stand a chance!
Scribbr’s citation tools and articles about citing sources help more than 2 million students every month.
Becoming better at citing is simple with the help of our highly rated citation guides.
Our experts are always up to date on the latest developments, such as the new APA 7th edition guidelines.
Our customer support team is happy to answer any questions you may have before, during, or after using our services.
Experienced Citation Experts perfect your citations for you, with 100% accuracy in any citation style. You can sit back and relax!
All Citation Styles • $2.75 per source
Citations are checked on over 100 APA guidelines, after which you’ll receive an interactive report highlighting all errors and outlining their solutions.
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When booking the Citation Editing service, you’ll be asked to indicate how many sources you have in your reference list. You’ll also need to indicate which reference style you’re using. We provide the service for the styles APA (6th and 7th editions), MLA, Chicago, Vancouver, Harvard, Deutsche Zitierweise, and university-specific guidelines.
Please note that we do not create entire references or apply style guidelines from scratch. Please also make sure that the information you added for your reference is correct. We cannot research each reference list and validate its content; we focus on formatting your reference list and in-text citations according to your selected citation style.
If you only add URLs, for example, we cannot edit it or create a reference entry for you. Rather, please ensure that you have already added the entries so that our experts can make sure it’s consistent and flawless in style.
If your citations are already good to go, and you just want to do a last check, you can also use our AI-powered APA Citation Checker. This tool flags minor mistakes that you can then fix yourself.
We offer the human Citation Editing service for:
The APA Citation Checker tool can check documents in the following languages:
The APA Citation Checker is an AI-based tool that currently supports APA Style 6th edition (2009) and 7th edition (2020). We are working hard to support more citation styles in the future.
Scribbr’s Citation Editing Service is performed by a human citation expert and supports APA 6, APA 7, MLA, Chicago, Vancouver, Harvard, Deutsche Zitierweise, and university-specific guidelines. Unfortunately, due to their complexity, we cannot check law-based reference styles.
If you have your own version of any of the above styles (for example, a specific Harvard guideline), please select “own guidelines” and upload your manual during the upload process.
This will depend on the type of missing information. For example, a book reference always contains the author’s name, the title, the year of publication, and the publisher. If one of these crucial details is missing, your citation expert will research the information and add it wherever possible.
Your citation expert cannot, however, complete your reference list for you. Depending on the missing information, they may ask you to add it yourself. Your expert also cannot verify if the information you provided is correct, as they focus on applying the selected guidelines correctly and consistently.
