The Citation report

The Citation report checks each sentence in your document that carries a citation. It asks whether the papers that sentence cites support it. It is part of Plus, and it is the last of the six checks in the Review panel.

What it reads

For each cited paper, the report reads the full text when you added the PDF to your library, and the title and abstract otherwise. A paper with neither cannot be checked. To get the most from it, add the PDFs of the papers you rely on. See Upload PDFs.

The verdict is a reading aid, not proof. Read the passages yourself before you change or keep a citation.

Run the report

Open the document and press Side panel, then the Review tab.
Open More checks and find Citation report at the end of the list.
Under What to check, keep Whole document, or put your cursor in a section and choose This section: with its heading.
Press Check citations.

While it works, the card says it is checking each cited sentence. It takes longer than the other checks, and a whole document longer than one section. The result appears below the checks.

You can also start it from Chat: type / and choose Check my citations. See Saved prompts and actions.

Read the result

The result opens with a note on what the report read. Then comes the list Cited sentences, worst first. Each sentence carries one verdict:

Not supported: the cited papers do not back the sentence.
Partly supported: they back part of it.
Can't check: there was nothing to check it against, or the check failed. A note under the sentence says why.
Supported: the cited papers back the sentence.

Press a sentence to jump to it in your document. A long sentence is cut short: press See more to read all of it, and See less to fold it again. If you edited the sentence after the check, it says The text has changed.

Under each sentence, Cited papers lists the papers it cites. After each title, a note says what the report read:

(full text): your PDF of the paper.
(abstract): its title and abstract.
(no abstract): the paper has no abstract Papero can read.
(not checked): the sentence cites more papers than the report reads for one sentence, so this one was left out.

See the passages it read

After a paper checked on its full text, press Show passages. The PDF reader opens your PDF at the passages the report read for that sentence, best first, under Passages the check read. The arrows beside the passage count move between them.

The verdict does not say which passage it relied on. The reader shows what the report read, so you can judge for yourself. See The PDF reader.

Why a sentence says Can't check

None of the cited papers has an abstract we can read. Add the PDF of the paper, then run the report again.
We could not find a passage in the cited PDFs that matches this sentence. Your PDF holds no passage on that point.
We could not reach the paper database for this sentence. Try again in a few minutes.
This sentence could not be checked. Try again.

On a long document the report may check only the first cited sentences. It says so, and you can run it on one section at a time to check the rest.

Free and Plus

The Citation report is part of Plus. On Free its card shows Part of Plus. and an Upgrade button. To compare the plans, see pricing.

Each run uses one review. When none of the cited papers has a text the report can read, it says so at once and uses no review. See Your AI allowance.

Your data

The report sends each cited sentence to OpenAI with the abstracts of the papers it cites, or with passages of your PDFs. OpenAI does not use this text to train its models. See the Privacy Policy.

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