- CRAAP: Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose/Point of View
- Scholarly vs. Popular Sources
- Primary vs. Secondary Sources
* annual reports, financial statements, press releases, interviews, speeches, blog entries or tweets vs. industry market reports, articles from journals, newspapers, magazines, trade publications
- Apply citation rules consistently
- Check errors in auto-generated citations
* APA Style electronic resources (official)
The Style and Grammar Guidelines page on the APA Style website has resources for learning the new seventh edition style.
* APA Formatting and Style Guide (7th Edition) from The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
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