Tutorials
Custom Checks Workflow
Build and validate custom checks for citation style, formatting rules, and faculty requirements in academic papers.
Custom Checks Workflow for University Requirements
This tutorial walks through a full pass with custom checks enabled.
Goal
By the end, you will have translated institutional rules into PaperCheck, run the analysis, and turned the results into concrete edits.

Steps
- Prepare your guidelines: Gather your relevant university or course requirements (supported formats: PDF, Word, or Excel).
- Upload requirements: Navigate to the Custom Checks page and upload your documents.
- Generate custom rules: Let PaperCheck automatically extract and formulate verifiable rules from your uploaded files.
- Run the analysis: Ensure your custom requirements are enabled, then click next to proceed to analyze your paper.
- Review and refine: Check the generated feedback and apply the necessary corrections.
- Iterate: If needed, upload a revised version of your paper to verify the fixes.
Need More Detail?
- For writing individual rules: Custom Checks Guide
- For the full list of standard checks: Checks Catalogue
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