Assignment checker for students
Check your assignment before you submit.
Upload your assignment and the brief you were given. StudyRef compares one against the other — word count, formatting, required sections, and every citation against your reference list — then tells you what it found and what it could not check.
Free to start · No card required · StudyRef does not give you a mark, and it does not tell you your work is compliant.
What a check looks like
Every finding pairs a requirement from your brief with what StudyRef read in your document. There is no overall score, because a brief is not fully mechanisable and a single tick would be claiming otherwise.
Word count
Meets- Your brief asks for
- 2,500 words ±10%, excluding the reference list
- StudyRef read
- 2,548 words counted, reference list excluded
Citations and references
Does not meet- Your brief asks for
- Every in-text citation appears in the reference list
- StudyRef read
- 19 in-text citations, 18 matched, 1 with no matching entry
Source requirement
Meets- Your brief asks for
- At least 8 sources
- StudyRef read
- 9 entries in the reference list
Formatting
Does not meet- Your brief asks for
- Times New Roman, 12 pt, double spaced
- StudyRef read
- Calibri, 11 pt, 1.15 line spacing
Source requirement
Could not check- Your brief asks for
- At least 6 peer-reviewed journal articles
- StudyRef read
- 6 journal articles found; peer-review status not established
“Could not check” is a real result and is reported as one. It means StudyRef could not obtain enough information — not that everything was fine.
The Assignment Checker
Free checks everything your document can prove about itself, citations and references included. Pro reads the sources behind it.
What every plan gets
FreeEverything StudyRef can establish from the document itself, and it is a real analysis — the same checks a paying customer's document goes through. Free includes 1 check a day.
- Every in-text citation matched against your reference list, and every reference entry matched back — so an unmatched citation or an uncited entry is found before a marker finds it.
- Your word count, with the exclusions your brief actually specifies — reference list, quotes, headings, tables, appendices.
- Font, size, line spacing, margins and indentation, read from the document rather than from what you meant to set.
- The sections you were asked to include, matched against the headings that are really there.
- Explicit source requirements you can count: how many sources, and whether their publication years fall inside the window your brief set.
- What it could not check, named explicitly, so an absent check never reads as a pass.
Deeper analysis
ProFour checks that have to read your sources rather than measure your document, which is why they need AI and why they are part of Pro.
- Whether your sources really are peer-reviewed, scholarly or the kind of publication your brief asks for — which needs evidence about the venue, not just the reference you typed.
- Whether each source is genuinely about the topic you cited it for.
- Sentence by sentence, whether the source you cited actually supports what you said.
- The parts of a marking rubric that have to be read rather than measured.
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Upload your assignment as a DOCX, and the brief you were given.
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StudyRef reads both and compares one against the other.
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You get what it found, area by area, and what it could not check.
Three tools, free and unlimited
Not a trial and not a preview. These run without a card, without a daily cap, and give you the complete result — because a finding your own document provably has is yours to see.
Citation Generator
FreeUnlimited
Build citations and references from a source's own details, or from a pasted URL, DOI or ISBN — with matching in-text citations in the same style.
Reference Checker
FreeUnlimited, with corrections
Paste your reference list and see every issue found — missing dates, malformed DOIs, capitalisation, ordering — plus a corrected reference where a safe, rule-based fix exists.
Word Analyzer
FreeDOCX upload, unlimited
Upload a DOCX and get the count that actually counts — headings, quotes, tables, captions, footnotes and the reference list excluded according to your rules.
Fair-use bounds apply so one request cannot become thousands: up to 100 references per check, and up to 5,000 words per document. Neither is a paywall — Starter is capped at the same number of references.
AI can help you work. StudyRef helps you check.
General AI assistants are good at explaining a concept, brainstorming, or drafting a first attempt. StudyRef is built for a narrower job: inspecting the details of a finished academic document against the brief it has to satisfy. Two different jobs, both useful.
General AI tools
Help you explain, brainstorm, and draft.
StudyRef
Checks a finished document against the requirements it was given.
How access works
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Create a free account with email or Google.
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Free features are available as soon as you register — no card required.
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Subscribe to Starter or Pro to unlock the applicable paid features.
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Digital access is provided instantly through your signed-in StudyRef account in the browser.
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Billing and subscription status are managed by Stripe; you can cancel any time from the billing portal.
Pricing
The rule-based tools are free. Paid plans add LaTeX projects, source-evidence analysis, and AI-assisted writing help. Shown here for information only — checkout happens on the pricing page after you sign in.
Free
$0 per month
The rule-based toolkit, in full.
- Unlimited Citation Generator
- Unlimited Reference Checker, with corrections
- DOCX Word Analyzer
- Assignment Checker — 1 rule-based check a day
Starter
$4.99 per month
LaTeX and multi-file academic projects.
- Everything free
- LaTeX Word Analyzer and Reference Checker
- BibTeX integrity and project health
- Saved projects and DOCX export
Pro
Most complete$19.99 per month
The Assignment Checker that reads your sources.
- Everything in Starter
- Source suitability and claim-support checks
- AI writing-concision credits
- Highest word limits
Pro for students
$14.99 per month
The same Pro plan, at a student rate.
- Every Pro feature, nothing withheld
- Discounted student price
- Requires student verification before checkout
All prices are in USD and billed per month. Pro for students is the same Pro plan with the same features at a discounted rate; it requires verifying your institution email inside StudyRef before checkout and cannot be purchased directly from this page. Payments are processed by Stripe.
Business information
Web-based educational productivity software (SaaS)
Online digital access — no physical goods, nothing shipped
University and college students, and anyone who needs citation and academic writing-support tools.
Recurring monthly subscription for paid plans. The Free plan requires no payment or card.
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