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Check the citations in a paper or essay

Each reference checked: it exists, its details are correct, and it says what the text claims.

  • You start it: When you start it
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What it does

The task

Open the document at doc url. For each reference in the reference list, find the source on Google Scholar, the publisher site or a library catalog. Check that it exists, and that the authors, the year, the title and the pages are correct and in citation style style. Read the part of the source that each in-text citation points to, and say if the source supports the claim. Do not change the document. Put the results in a new Google Doc as a table: Reference, Exists, Details correct, Supports the claim, Note.

  • It works in Google Scholar and Google Docs, in the workspace you pick, and signs in with passwords from your Cuiar vault.
  • It runs once, when you start it.

What you give it

BlankWhat to giveExample
doc urlA link to the paper or the essayhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1Tz4hP0cWq/edit
citation styleThe style the references must followAPA 7

What you get back

An example run with the example values above. Your run uses your own data.

Citation check: Urban heat islands essay (22 references)

Exists: 21 of 22. Not found: 'Marsh, T. (2019). Cooling cities. Urban Climate Review, 12.'

Details wrong: 4 (2 wrong years, 1 wrong journal, 1 wrong page range)

Does not support the claim: 2

  • p. 3, 'trees cut street temperatures by 10 degrees' cites Ruiz (2020), which reports 2 to 4 degrees
  • p. 6, Gao (2018) is about Beijing only, not 'all large cities'

Not in APA 7 style: 5 references (no DOI)

Doc: Citation check, 22 rows

Run it in Cuiar

  1. 01

    Open it

    Click Use in Cuiar on this page. The side panel opens with the task in the composer.

  2. 02

    Fill in 2 blanks

    Type doc url and citation style. Tab moves to the next blank.

  3. 03

    Run it

    Run sends it to the agent. Follow each step in the panel, and stop it at any time.

From the terminal

cuiar exec "Open the document at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Tz4hP0cWq/edit. For each reference in the reference list, find the source on Google Scholar, the publisher site or a library catalog. Check that it exists, and that the authors, the year, the title and the pages are correct and in APA 7 style. Read the part of the source that each in-text citation points to, and say if the source supports the claim. Do not change the document. Put the results in a new Google Doc as a table: Reference, Exists, Details correct, Supports the claim, Note."

Run it from your AI agent

Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other MCP clients reach Cuiar at https://mcp.cuiar.com/mcp. Add the server one time, then ask for the task in plain words, or call run_task yourself.

1. Add Cuiar to Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http cuiar https://mcp.cuiar.com/mcp

2. Ask your agent

Use the Cuiar tool run_task to run my "Check the citations in a paper or essay" template with doc url = https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Tz4hP0cWq/edit; citation style = APA 7.

Setup for other agents: AI agents.

The tool call

{
  "name": "run_task",
  "arguments": {
    "task": "Open the document at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Tz4hP0cWq/edit. For each reference in the reference list, find the source on Google Scholar, the publisher site or a library catalog. Check that it exists, and that the authors, the year, the title and the pages are correct and in APA 7 style. Read the part of the source that each in-text citation points to, and say if the source supports the claim. Do not change the document. Put the results in a new Google Doc as a table: Reference, Exists, Details correct, Supports the claim, Note."
  }
}

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