How it works
Real citations, from your own papers. Checked before you see them.
Litrevu reads the papers you add and checks every citation against a passage it read in them. Here is exactly how that works, and what it means for your academic integrity.
Grounded in your sources, by design
Litrevu drafts from text it retrieved from your papers, and tells you when they do not cover something.
- Step 1
You add your reference papers
Upload PDFs, paste a paper's URL, DOI or arXiv link, paste its text, or pick open-access papers found on your topic. Litrevu cites only the papers you chose and does not search the web. When they don't cover a question, it says so.
- Step 2
It retrieves the passages relevant to each point
Ask your papers a question, agree an outline in chapters and sections, and draft cited sections into a document you edit. Each time, Litrevu searches inside your papers and pulls the passages relevant to your topic. This is retrieval-augmented generation (RAG): the model writes from text it just retrieved. If your papers don't cover something, it tells you.
- Step 3
Each citation is checked against your papers
Before you see an answer or a section, every citation is checked against a passage Litrevu read in your papers, and any it cannot match is removed. Switch between APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, Vancouver, or IEEE at any time. The reference list is built from the same papers in your library.
Every citation names a paper you can check
In answers and in sections written in chat, open any citation and Litrevu shows you an excerpt of the passage it came from, word for word, with the paper’s title, its authors and its year.
Because the citation is tied to a passage Litrevu retrieved, you are never guessing whether a reference is real. You can trace a cited claim back to the paper you added and confirm it for yourself.
Median sleep on school days rose by 34 minutes in 2017 (Dunster et al., 2018).
Sleepmore in Seattle: Later school start times are associated with more sleep and better performance in high school students
Gideon P. Dunster et al. (2018)
Wilcoxon signed-rank tests corrected for multiple comparisons revealed that students in 2017 had a 44 min later median sleep offset (P < 0.0001, effect size = 0.194), and a trend toward a later sleep onset that was not statistically significant. This asymmetric effect led to an overall 34-min increase in the sleep duration median during school days in 2017 (P = 0.0007, effect size = 0.353). In contrast to school days, nonschool days did not show any significant differences between years in any of these sleep parameters.
A real passage from a published paper, as a citation opens it.
You write with it. You do not hand off to it.
Litrevu gives you a cited first draft. The thinking, the judgement, and the final words stay yours.
A first draft, not a final paper
Litrevu hands you a structured, cited starting point. It is built to save you the blank-page paralysis, not to produce something you submit untouched.
You review and revise
Open each citation, read the passage it came from, and revise the draft in your own voice. That work is the point, not a formality.
You follow your institution's rules
Policies on AI-assisted work differ by university and department. Always check yours before submitting. Litrevu is a drafting tool, not a way around academic standards.
Two questions people ask first
- Can Litrevu cite a paper I did not give it?
- No. Litrevu cites only papers in your library, and checks each citation against a passage it read before you see it. It can still get things wrong: the check confirms that a citation points to a passage in your papers, not that the passage fully supports the sentence. Open the citation and read the passage before you keep a claim.
- Is using Litrevu academic misconduct?
- Litrevu is a drafting tool, not a shortcut around academic standards. You choose the topic and sources, you review and revise the draft, and you remain responsible for the final submission. Before submitting, check your institution's guidelines on AI-assisted work.
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