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APA 7th Style Citation Guide: Common APA Errors

Avoiding Common APA Errors

The following list of short Word documents show how to avoid some of the APA mistakes that students often make.

Author Mismatch
Choosing the Correct Document Type
Citing Paraphrases and Quotations
Date or No Date?
Don’t Trust Citation Generators and the Like
Quotation Errors
Realize that You Remain Responsible for Your Own Work
Reference List Errors
Final periods, Hanging indents, Retrieval dates, URLs and DOIs
Using the Correct Author in References
Where to Put the Citation in a Long Paraphrase

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