Audience
Every CitationLab post tagged audience. This topic runs through several posts across the blog — case files where it caused a real problem, and guides for handling it in your own reference list.
Audit your own paper's references before you submit it
A paper's reference list fails differently from a thesis: co-author merges, reference-manager exports, and a review cycle long enough for the literature to move. The five-step audit, in the order that pays.
Did someone help with your thesis? Two checks before you submit
Supervisors, proofreaders, writing centres, AI tools — help with a thesis is normal and usually sanctioned. The accountability is not shared. Two checks to run on your references before you sign.
REFerence [IN]tegrity for universities — the check that stopped running
Every thesis is screened for plagiarism. Nobody checks whether its references resolve. Why the check stopped, what AI did to the problem, and which units inside a university already own the work.