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One page for the final week before the portal closes. The deadline is the one honest source of urgency in this work: it is yours, it is real, and a citation error found after submission cannot be fixed. Run this pass in order.
The existence pass.
Resolve every DOI at doi.org and every PubMed ID at PubMed. A free automated checker speeds this up; spot-check its output at the registry. Flag anything that does not resolve or does not match, field by field.
The claim-support pass.
For every load-bearing citation, reread the source’s abstract and ask: does it say what my sentence says, at the same scope, with a verb no stronger than its own? No automated tool does this step. It is the one reviewers feel.
The mechanical pass.
Author lists correct on every reference. References inside tables and figures included, not just the bibliography. Formatting checked against the sponsor’s current instructions, on their live page, not a saved template.
Freeze the reference list.
Any edit after the freeze re-opens only the citations it touched. Re-check those and nothing else. Late whole-document rewrites are how verified lists quietly break.
The rule that makes it work
Do not let the tool that wrote a citation be the tool that checks it. If AI touched your reference list, verify it somewhere the AI cannot: at the registry itself.
Why the care: an audit of 2.5 million published biomedical papers found fabricated references in about 1 in 277 in early 2026 (Topaz et al., The Lancet, 2026, PMID 42107362). Those papers had already passed peer review. A grant proposal gets no second round.
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