{"id":622,"date":"2026-07-24T20:58:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscriptroute.com\/?page_id=622"},"modified":"2026-07-25T00:42:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T00:42:59","slug":"reference-verification","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptroute.com\/?page_id=622","title":{"rendered":"Reference Verification Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mrsc-shell mrsc-page\">\n<header class=\"mrsc-page-hero\"><span class=\"mrsc-eyebrow\">Institutional policy<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Reference Verification Policy<\/h1>\n<p>Bibliographic records must be real and traceable.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"mrsc-prose\">\n<ul class=\"mrsc-policy-list\">\n<li>A reference is not accepted merely because a title appears plausible.<\/li>\n<li>Title, authorship, journal, year and DOI or other authoritative record must be mutually consistent.<\/li>\n<li>A DOI is never guessed, silently replaced or attached to a different publication.<\/li>\n<li>Unverified references are excluded or explicitly flagged for human resolution.<\/li>\n<li>Reference verification does not mean that a source proves every claim; claim-to-source relevance remains part of scientific review.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Core rule:<\/strong> If a fact cannot be verified, it is not presented as verified. If information is missing, it is not invented.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Institutional policy Reference Verification Policy Bibliographic records must be real and traceable. A reference is not accepted merely because a title appears plausible. Title, authorship, journal, year and DOI or other authoritative record must be mutually consistent. A DOI is never guessed, silently replaced or attached to a different publication. Unverified references are excluded or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","_pg_hidden_news":"","_pg_seo_title":"","_pg_seo_description":"","_pg_tags":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-622","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptroute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptroute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptroute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptroute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptroute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptroute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptroute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/622\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptroute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}