For Dissertation, Thesis & Manuscript Editors
You edit other people's work. Their references are now checked too.
An editing client hands you two hundred references they assembled over three years, some from memory and some from an AI assistant. RefRunner verifies every one against Crossref, OpenAlex, the Library of Congress and ERIC, fills in missing DOIs, flags the ones that don't exist or don't match, and formats the list in whatever style the program requires — in minutes, in your browser, with the document going nowhere.
No account needed to try it — check our sample or upload your own paper, free and right in your browser.
A free account adds 50 lookups a day, saved reference lists, and free months when you refer colleagues.
📱 On a phone? Create a free account now and your reference lists will be waiting when start working on your paper.
How editors use it
1. Check a client's list free
Drop a chapter in. Twenty references are checked without an account; a free account checks fifty a day.
2. Get a pack for your practice
Ten seats: one unlimited seat for you, and seats you hand to clients so they can run their own drafts before sending them. Three months covers a dissertation cycle; annual is cheaper.
3. Deliver a verified reference list
Every entry checked, DOIs filled in, formatted to the program's style — and a share link you can send the client so they see exactly what changed.
A pack for your editing practice
Ten seats: one is unlimited — yours, for checking every document that comes through — and the rest you hand to clients so they can run their own drafts before they send them to you. Each client seat checks up to 1,000 references a month. Three months covers a dissertation cycle; annual is the better price if editing is what you do.
| Seats | Unlimited seats | Annual | 3 months |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 1 | $400 · $40/seat | $150 · $15/seat |
| 20 | 2 | $700 · $35/seat | $240 · $12/seat |
| 50 | 5 | $1,500 · $30/seat | $500 · $10/seat |
| 100 | 10 | $2,500 · $25/seat | $800 · $8/seat |
| 250 | 25 | $5,000 · $20/seat | $1,500 · $6/seat |
| 500 | 50 | $8,000 · $16/seat | $2,500 · $5/seat |
- You manage the seats: add a client by email or share a code, and reassign the seat when the project ends.
- A solo editor is a 10-pack. A shop with several editors and a steady client list is a 20 or 50.
- Every pack starts with a free 90-day pilot.
Ask about a pack
Why editors adopt it
The Reference List Is the Part Nobody Checks
You fix the prose, the structure, the formatting. The references get a pass for style and nothing more, because verifying two hundred of them by hand is a day's work. RefRunner does it in minutes: every entry checked against Crossref, OpenAlex, the Library of Congress, and ERIC.
A Fabricated Citation Is Your Client's Problem — and Yours
Students draft with AI assistants, and AI assistants invent plausible references. A committee member who spots one stops trusting the whole document. RefRunner flags entries no database has ever heard of, wrong DOIs, and authors that don't match, before the defense.
Any Style the Program Demands
APA 7 for one client, Chicago notes for the next, a university's own variant for the third. Switch styles with one click and the list reformats from verified records, not from what the student typed.
Nothing Leaves the Browser
A client's unpublished dissertation is confidential. RefRunner runs in the browser and queries only public bibliographic databases; the document is never uploaded anywhere. Nothing to explain in your service agreement.
Working with a student right now? Send them a share link to their verified list — they see every change, and you look like the editor who checks everything.