Premium users can now use Bartleby Write to analyze their papers for missing citations. Bartleby Write uses a proprietary machine learning model, trained using quality research papers, to analyze your paper and alert you to sentences that you should consider adding an in-line citation to. This analysis is not simply looking for plagiarism, it is actually analyzing your paper’s language to identify text that is typically cited when used in a similar context.
How Citation Analysis Works
In the following example, Bartleby Write has analyzed the paper and is suggesting that a sentence may need to be cited.
Citation Analysis provides recommendations for in-line citations in an essay or paper.
- The suggested citation’s location is highlighted and marked with a placeholder: “(Consider Citation).”
- An error card is displayed in the right-hand margin stating “This text appears to be an unsourced statement and may need a citation.”
- The error card offers two options:
- Add Citation: This option will move your cursor to the placeholder text and allow you to replace it with an in-line citation.
- Dismiss: This option will remove the placeholder and dismiss the error card.
- Bartleby Write considers a Citation Suggestion a Writing issue and includes Citation Suggestions in the count of Writing issues in the scorecard panel and Results Filter.
Usage Notes
- A suggested citation indicates that the sentence uses language that is typically cited when used in a similar context. You should use this suggestion along with your knowledge of the source of the idea being presented in the sentence to determine your next step. If the idea is your own (perhaps you’re stating a conclusion you’ve reached or recounting a personal anecdote) or common knowledge, then you can most likely dismiss the suggestion. If the statement contains someone else’s idea, data, or research, then it should probably be cited.
- Be sure to consult your institution or instructor’s guidelines on the use and format of citations for your assignment.
- Each of the major document styles (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.) has unique rules for using and formatting in-line citations so ensure that you follow the appropriate style guidelines when adding citations.
- Citation Analysis automatically ignores sentences that include an in-line citation. This does not depend on the “Scan Cited Text” analysis option; that option only applies to scanning for plagiarism.
- Citation Analysis does not suggest citations for sentences that the system has identified as potentially plagiarized. Plagiarism error cards will offer to create a citation for some identified plagiarism issues, but this is not based on Citation Analysis – only plagiarism detection.
Final Thoughts
Citation Analysis is easy to use and should really help you improve your paper. Often, when you’re writing a paper, you lose sight (cite?) of the source of the ideas you’re presenting. You become so familiar with the subject that you forget to cite appropriately. That’s where Bartleby Write’s Citation Analysis can really help: as that reminder to give credit where credit is due and show your instructor that you know how to use research effectively.