APA
Every CitationLab post tagged APA. This topic runs through several posts across the blog — case files where it caused a real problem, and guides for handling it in your own reference list.
How to tell what citation style your thesis uses
Your thesis probably does not have one style. Identify the shape of each citation instead — six forms, decidable from the surface — and diagnose your own document in ten minutes.
Secondary citations (
A secondary citation names two works and puts only one in your reference list — which looks identical to the commonest defect in a bibliography. What the form claims, when it is the right answer, and how to remove one properly.
The APA default that broke every Vancouver thesis
Most citation tools silently assume author–date referencing. Here is what that default does to a numbered Vancouver thesis — including the weeks our own system detected the style, then threw the answer away.