Every source, from first search to final citation.
Free to start. You read and decide. CoChat tracks, checks, and exports.
What is citation management in CoChat?
Most people stitch this together across four tools. They find sources in a search engine, store them in a reference manager, check the questionable ones by hand, and format the bibliography somewhere else. The sources scatter, the checking gets skipped under deadline, and a bad citation slips through.
CoChat keeps the whole lifecycle in one place: find, verify, triage, review, cite. You stay the reader and author. CoChat handles the tracking and flags the references that do not hold up.
Five steps, one workspace
Find real sources
Search CrossRef, OpenAlex, PubMed, arXiv, Semantic Scholar, CORE, and DOAJ. Every source that comes back is a real, findable paper.
Verify as they arrive
CoChat checks each source against CrossRef and Semantic Scholar the moment it appears, flagging any source that does not resolve or match.
Triage the list
Verified sources rise, flagged sources sink. You decide where your reading goes, on evidence.
Review & organize
Collect the keepers, all already verified, into a project, tag and sort, and build structured literature review tables.
Cite & export
Export a clean bibliography to BibTeX, RIS, or CSV, ready for Zotero, EndNote, or your reference manager.
Your sources stop scattering
Citation work hurts not because any single step is hard, but because every step lives in a different tool. Nothing carries forward.
In CoChat, each step feeds the next:
- The sources you find are the ones you triage.
- The ones you keep are the ones you verify.
- The verified set becomes your literature review table.
- That table becomes your exported bibliography.
You build one source library instead of re-entering the same references into four tools. Management here is not a filing cabinet you maintain; it is a workflow that carries your sources forward, so the next review starts from work you already trust.
One real reference list, sorted and verified
The whole lifecycle as one object: real sources found, triaged, organized into a table, each carrying its verification status, ready to export.
Four scattered tools vs. one lifecycle
The usual stack
CoChat citation management
Finding sources
Search engine, results you cannot trust
Seven databases, every source real
Sorting them
Skim everything, or skip it
Triaged by verification signal and relevance
Storing them
| A separate reference manager |
Organized in your project, searchable
Checking them
By hand, skipped under deadline
Verified against CrossRef and Semantic Scholar
Catching bad citations
| When a reviewer or editor does |
Flagged as you work, before you rely on them
Formatting
Yet another tool
Export to BibTeX, RIS, or CSV
Managing sources is not the same as checking them
Traditional reference managers are filing cabinets. They store what you put in and format it neatly, but never ask whether a citation is real or says what you claim. That gap is where errors live, and they are everywhere now.
CoChat puts verification in the middle of the lifecycle, not at the end. A filing cabinet stores a misattributed reference as tidily as an accurate one; CoChat flags it first. Because finding, sorting, verifying, and citing happen in one place, your source library is something you build on, not rebuild each project.
Same home, different research
Manage your sources wherever your research lives. See how citation management works across fields and roles.
The two deep dives inside citation management
Management is the lifecycle. These are the focused capabilities inside it, each answering a narrower question.
Citation Verification
Every recommended source is checked against CrossRef and Semantic Scholar, and the ones that do not resolve or match their claim get flagged. See the verification engine, the real-time matching, and the badges.
Management is the lifecycle. Verification and triage are the deep dives inside it. You get all three in one workspace.
Frequently asked questions
1. What is the difference between citation management and citation verification?
2. Does CoChat replace my reference manager?
3. Do I still have to read the sources myself?
4. Can I export my references?
Start with one question.
Create one research question for something you are working on right now. Connect your Zotero key or run a single search to seed it, screen a few papers, then turn on Radar and let the next one find you.
Free to start. One private home for every paper you’ve touched.