Biblibuddy
Fast, accurate and rigorous referencing hygiene assistant for scholars.
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Save hours and protect your reputation from referencing slip-ups.

Biblibuddy helps you clean up your referencing by checking that your in-text citations and bibliography entries match each other perfectly, and validating references online so you can submit with confidence.

Academics don't want AI that does the fulfilling researching / writing work, they want something that does the boring drudge so they can spend more time on research. This is exactly what Biblibuddy is here for.

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Biblibuddy produces clean reports to help you identify and fix errors. It does not touch your doc and none of your content is saved anywhere.

What Biblibuddy can do you for you in 2-3 minutes

  • Internal consistency: Finds Harvard style in-text references not in the bibliography, bibliography items not referenced in-text, and identifies 'near-miss' errors (e.g., author spellings, years, suffixes).
  • Online validation: Verifes your bibliography entries via scholarly APIs and web searches; the app errs on the side of caution by flagging borderline match "review" cases conservatively.
  • Export to Excel: Creates a structured bibliography Excel file with distinct columns for authors, title, year, publisher, volume, pages, URL etc.

Example report views

Example report view screenshot (matches and summary)
Example report view screenshot (highlights and bibliography status)
Example report view screenshot (interactive view)
Example report view screenshot (Excel export)
Example report view screenshot (online validation details)

Privacy-first by design

Biblibuddy never saves your content. The few processes where the app uses AI only look at small chunks to identify matches / mismatches / near misses, classify a reference as scholarly or not to make searching more efficient, and pick the strongest search result when doing online validation.
Learn more in the FAQ and how the app works.

Why this matters

Referencing is the audit trail foundation of academic knowledge. Citation / bibliography errors are common but preventable. But doing this manually takes hours. Biblibuddy helps you identify them in a couple of minutes, and before submission.