Bibliographic auditor
Analyze a Word document to compare its citations, reference list, and bibliographic details.
Start a Web audit
The Web Auditor analyzes a .docx document, including one created outside PandaRef. You can set the document title, author, and citation style before submitting it; processing may wait in a queue.
In practice, choose the document audit action and upload a .docx file. Next, review the title derived from the file name, enter the author, and choose the style to check. Then, start the audit and follow its queued, processing, completed, or failed status and progress. Finally, if it fails, review the displayed error before retrying.
Understand scores and findings
Reference matching and citation linking are separate measures. Reference matching summarizes agreement with verified bibliographic data; citation linking reports how many detected in-text citations were associated with a reference in the document. Neither is a plagiarism score or an overall academic-quality rating.
In practice, review the reference and citation summaries separately, including observed, unverified, unlinked, uncited, or duplicate items where shown. Next, open a finding to compare detected information with expected metadata and see format issues or differences. Then, treat suggestions as leads to verify against the original source; a suggestion may not exist for every finding. Finally, a linked citation only indicates an association, not that the source details or style are correct.
Review and download results
The audit history keeps completed results available. The PDF report and processed Word document are separate downloads; verify both before sharing.
In practice, confirm suggested bibliographic details against the publication or original source. Next, download the PDF report for the summary and findings. Then, download the audited Word file separately and keep a copy of the original. Finally, review the files manually; an audit does not replace source verification or plagiarism review.
Read the findings tables
The summary separates reference status from citation status. Findings tables list items requiring attention; the citations table focuses on observed citations and citations without a reference, rather than repeating correct citations as incidents.
In practice, for references, compare the detected reference with its result, observation, and suggested reference when one is available. Next, for citations, use the detected text and observation to locate it in the document; an automatic recommendation may not be available. Then, bibliographic match summarizes correspondence for analyzed references; citation match measures their relationship to entries in the reference list. Do not confuse their denominators. Finally, verify warnings against the primary source and the selected style guide. Save corrections and audit again if you need to check the changes.