Acurio

Acurio is an AI-powered citation checker built for students writing bachelor's, master's, and PhD theses. It takes your Word document (with Zotero field codes) and your source library — as BibTeX, RIS, or a stack of PDFs — and checks every single citation against the original text. Within minutes, it tells you whether each reference actually supports the claim you made, with a clear color code: green for supported, yellow for partial, red for unsupported, and gray for no source found. The result is a color-marked document you can review in the browser, export as a report, or share with a link.

What makes Acurio stand out is how specific it gets. Hover over any citation and you see the exact matching passage from the source, the page number, and a match score. It handles mixed source formats in one pass and works across German and English without a translation step. The tool also offers a full thesis review feature: upload your paper and Acurio reads it like an examiner would, giving an overall verdict with strengths, weaknesses, and missing sections, each anchored to a specific paragraph. It prioritizes next steps so you know exactly what to fix before submission.

Acurio is most useful for students in the final stages of writing who want to catch fabricated or misattributed citations before their examiner does. It's also handy for supervisors who want a quick check on a student's bibliography. The free bibliography check lets you paste a reference list and instantly see if any entries are retracted or missing. For the full citation verification and thesis review, you'll need to sign up — but there's a free tier to start.