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Check my citations

Ask whether each paper you cited actually says what your sentence says, and see the passage it does say.

Time
3 minutes
Steps
5

It is easy to cite the right paper for the wrong point, especially months after you read it. Check my citations reads each sentence in the section that cites a paper, then looks in that paper for what it really says. Where the paper may not back your sentence, it shows you the sentence and the passage side by side. It never rewrites your text.

  1. Opening the Insight tab beside the draft

    Step 1Open the Insight tab

    In the Writing lens, open the section you want to check, then open the Insight tab in the panel on the right.

  2. Choosing the Claims view in the Insight tab

    Step 2Switch to Claims

    At the top of the tab, choose Claims. Scroll down to Check my citations. It explains what it does: it asks the AI whether each paper you cited says what your sentence says.

  3. The Check my citations button with its cost

    Step 3Run the check

    Press Check my citations. The button shows about how many credits it will use. On the Free plan, CurTask first asks Use credits? with the amount: choose Continue to go ahead.

    While it works, the tab says Checking your citations against the papers… If no paragraph in the section cites a paper, nothing is checked and nothing is charged.

  4. Step 4Read what was flagged

    If every citation is backed, the tab says Every cited sentence matches what its paper says. Otherwise it tells you how many citations may not support their sentences. For each one you see:

    • Citation to check, with Your sentence;
    • what the paper says, as a quote with its page. Press the page to open the reader there;
    • or The paper has no passage on this point.

    In your text, the sentence is marked Check citation.

    The answers get a second check before you see them, which keeps false alarms down: citations that the paper does back are not flagged.

  5. Step 5Show it in the text and revise

    Choose Show in text to jump to the sentence. Then decide: change the sentence so it says what the paper says, cite a different paper, or keep it as it is if you disagree. You are the author.

    If you edit the sentence, its flag says This sentence has changed since the check. Checking the same text again reuses the earlier result at no cost.

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