CitationSniper

AI-powered citation finder that also catches fake references before your supervisor does. Most citation tools help you format what you already have. CitationSniper helps you find what you're missing, verify what you've got, and catch what shouldn't be there at all. HOW IT WORKS Select any sentence or claim on a webpage or PDF — or paste one directly. Get results from academic and literary databases, searched in parallel. See which results support, contradict, or relate to your claim, with a confidence score. Export straight to Word, Google Docs, or plain text FIND REAL CITATIONS, NOT JUST RELATED ONES Each result comes with an Evidence Strength badge — Supporting, Contradictory, Mixed, or Related — plus a credibility tier, DOAJ status, and a DOI check confirming the source actually resolves. No more guessing whether a result is worth citing. CATCH FAKE AI CITATIONS Paste a reference list — including ones ChatGPT or another AI tool generated — and CitationSniper checks whether each source actually exists before you submit it. UPDATE OUTDATED CITATIONS Paste your reference list and get each source classified as foundational or empirical, with newer research suggested where a finding may have been superseded. BULK LOOKUP Paste multiple references at once and get them all resolved together, streaming in as they're verified — no need to check one at a time. TRACE A SOURCE'S OWN CITATIONS See what a paper cites and what has cited it since, so you can trace an idea backward to its origin or forward to the current state of the field. WORKS ON PDFS TOO Extract and search directly from a PDF, not just web pages. FREE ✓ 10 searches per day ✓ Evidence Strength + credibility badges ✓ Abstract previews ✓ Citation chain tracing, 1 level deep ✓ Up to 5 saved notes ✓ APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard export Montly or Lifetime subscriptions to get ⭐ Unlimited searches ⭐ Full abstracts, not previews ⭐ Citation chain tracing, up to 3 levels deep ⭐ Personal citation library, unlimited and searchable ⭐ Full search history ⭐ Force fuzzy matching on every search ⭐ Unlimited saved notes PRIVACY-FIRST CitationSniper only reads the text you explicitly select. We don't track your browsing or scrape pages in the background.