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Verify APA citations

APA's author–date format leans heavily on the publication year and a trailing DOI — exactly the two fields AI assistants most often get wrong. A confident-looking year and a well-formed DOI are no guarantee the reference is real or correctly attributed.

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APA reference anatomy

Author(s) (Year). Title. Journal, Volume(Issue), pages. DOI

LeCun, Y., Bengio, Y., & Hinton, G. (2015). Deep learning. Nature, 521(7553), 436–444. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14539

What goes wrong in APA bibliographies

  • Wrong publication year — AI assistants frequently shift years by 1–3
  • DOIs that resolve to a different paper than the one cited
  • Ampersand and comma rules mangled when reformatting between styles

A APA citation we would flag

LeCun, Y., Bengio, Y., & Hinton, G. (2018). Deep learning. Nature, 521(7553), 436–444.

Partial — real source, fields differ

The paper is real, but it was published in 2015, not 2018. We return a year diff (cited 2018 → actual 2015) and a one-click corrected APA citation.