Free pre-submission check

Catch referencing issues before your marker does.

Upload your essay and Solas checks every in-text citation against your reference list, showing each issue line by line before you submit.

30 seconds. No setup required.

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Free during the research preview. Sign in with Google to run your check.

Your essay never leaves your browser — the whole check runs locally on your computer.

The problem

Right now, your bibliography has issues you can't see.

Orphan citations. Years that don't match. References no one ever cited. They're invisible to you — and obvious to a marker.

The marker

They see them in seconds.

Every issue you missed is the first thing a marker checks. The easiest marks to lose. And the easiest to fix — if you can see them.

The fix

Solas shows you first.

Upload your essay. In 30 seconds, every citation, every orphan, every mismatched year is laid out for you — line by line, before you submit.

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The extension

And next time, the issues never start.

The Solas Chrome extension builds the reference as you save the source. Every author, date, and publisher checked against CrossRef, OpenAlex, Google Books, and Unpaywall — before it touches your essay.

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Essay — Draft 3

Inflation expectations remained well-anchored for much of the 2010s. (Lindberg, 2017) argues that this stagnation cannot be fully explained by productivity dynamics alone.

Real wages, however, remained below their 2008 peak in the United Kingdom for over a decade.

Year mismatch

Lindberg (2017)

Reference list says Lindberg, C. (2010). The marker will catch this.

S Solas

Cite Library Audit

Stiglitz, J. E. (2010) Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

Verified · High reliabilityRecognised publisher · 2,300+ citations

The framework

Know what to trust.

Every source is scored against the four pillars markers care about. The grading you'll have to defend in your essay — done before you cite.

Currency

How recent is the source, and is its evidence still standing? Solas weights currency against source type.

Relevance

Does the source speak to its claim? Subject area, publisher specialisation, and editorial intent.

Authority

Who wrote it and who published it? Cross-checked against recognised publishers and predatory databases.

Accuracy

Retraction records, citation counts, and Unpaywall verification. Concerns surface as plain annotations.

How it works

Three steps. Page to citation.

Open Solas on any page

Side panel or in-page Glance bar. Works on news sites, journal databases, books, theses, and PDFs.

Click Cite this page

Solas extracts the metadata, cross-references it, and writes a verified Harvard reference.

Save to your project

File the citation under a project. Highlight passages to save quotes alongside, clickable back to the source.