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Overview

The Trinka Reference Quality Check API helps developers assess the quality and relevance of references, identify problematic references, and verify reference details against external databases.
By integrating this API, users can ensure their documents use reliable and high-quality references.

Key Features​

Reference Quality Assessment​

  • Analyzes citations for quality issues.
  • Flags problems such as:
    • Frequent citations of the same journal.
    • Outdated references.
    • Retracted or unverified references that could not be confirmed through reliable external databases.
  • Ensures citation details (authors, publication information) match trusted databases such as Crossref.
  • Highlights issues and may suggest corrections to keep citations current, accurate, and trustworthy.

Comprehensive Reports​

  • Provides results as structured JSON output.
  • Includes two main parts:
    • Summary → Quick overview of all issues found.
    • Detailed report → Breaks down specific findings for each individual reference.
  • Helps users understand both overall quality issues and detailed citation-level problems.

Formatting Check​

  • Detects non-standard references.
  • Identifies citations that do not follow typical or standard formatting rules within the document.

Real-Time Feedback​

  • Instantly processes submitted documents.
  • Generates reports immediately for quick validation.

Documentation​

For detailed technical steps on integrating the API, check out the Reference Quality Report API Reference with API request examples, error codes, and more.