How to Avoid Fake References When Using AI to Write Academic Papers: 5 Steps from Searching and Verification to Citation Integration
Author’s note: This article walks through a five-step verification process for addressing a common problem in AI-assisted academic writing: references that don’t appear in databases. It covers finding sources, opening the original texts, checking bibliographic details, comparing citations with the sources, and confirming them manually. Many people encounter the same problem when they first use…