Citations, numbers, and formulas stay out of the rewrite bill

Charles Li · HumanPen · citations-not-in-rewrite-bill

A useful AI-writing polish pass leaves the bibliography, equation objects, and numeric claims alone. On HumanPen, you pay for words actually rewritten in flagged continuous prose—not every token that happens to sit near a highlight.

That keeps your reference list linked, your DOCX styles closer to the original, and your supervisor conversation about substance instead of accidental citation damage. Distinct from pay-by-rewritten-words (the billing unit), freeze-citations-numbers-formulas (preserve fields), and free-rounds-until-under-20 (leftover flagged prose). Here the literacy move is what does not inflate the rewrite bill.

What stays out of the bill

• Reference-list / bibliography lines and in-text citation markers when they are not continuous prose targets.
• Equation objects, formula blocks, and numeric claims that the workflow freezes.
• Unflagged continuous prose—HumanPen does not wash the whole file to charge more.

Operational order

1. Import the Turnitin / iThenticate AI writing report.
2. Rewrite only flagged continuous-prose spans (paid on rewritten words).
3. Keep citations, numbers, formulas, tables, and layout intact.
4. Re-export; re-check; free rounds only on remaining flagged prose if still ≥20%.

What this is not

• Not a guarantee the detector will pass, clear you, or that * under 20% is a misconduct verdict.
• Not “undetectable,” bypass, or advice to hide AI authorship.
• Not unlimited free rewriting of unflagged text.

Product: humanpen.net. Charles Li · HumanPen.