How to Preserve Every Citation When Using an AI Humanizer

The most common complaint we hear from academic users: "The humanizer changed my citations." It shouldn't. Here's how to make sure it never does.

What Keyword Lock does

Keyword Lock pins specific phrases before the restructuring engine runs. Pinned phrases are excluded from all perplexity and burstiness adjustments — the engine rewrites every sentence around them, never through them.

What you should always lock: • In-text citations: (Smith et al., 2024, p. 42), [3], (WHO, 2023) • Statistics: 47.3%, p < 0.05, n = 312 • Proper nouns: Organization names, location names, technical terms • Quoted material: Any phrase you're quoting verbatim

How to use it

1. Select the text you want to pin in the input field
2. Click "Lock" (the padlock icon that appears on selection)
3. Locked phrases appear with a yellow highlight
4. Run the humanizer as normal

The output will contain every locked phrase exactly as you entered it — same spelling, same punctuation, same capitalization.

Common mistakes

Locking too little: Only locking citations but not statistics. A stat like "increased by 47.3%" can get paraphrased to "nearly doubled" — wrong.

Locking too much: Locking entire sentences defeats the purpose. Lock phrases, not paragraphs.

Forgetting proper nouns: "Harvard University" can become "a prestigious institution" without a lock. Always lock institution names in academic work.

For research papers

A good rule: lock everything that would require you to go back to the source to verify. If it's checkable, lock it.