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Fix your reference list before your committee does.

A quick, practical audit checklist that walks your references line by line — so the small formatting mistakes don't slow down your submission. Built from fifteen years of editing dissertations, theses, and articles.

What's inside

  • The 7 most common reference-list errors — and how to catch each one
  • Hanging indents, spacing, and alphabetizing, the Word-settings way
  • DOIs and URLs: what APA 7 actually wants now
  • A final pre-submission pass you can run in ten minutes
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Managing Your Dissertation References

The checklist catches errors at the end. The full toolkit builds your reference list as you read — a provenance log, the audit checklist, and a reading journal — so your list is already done and every in-text citation already has a home before you draft.

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