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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

Reference lists are where APA 7 quietly trips people up — hanging indents, capitalization, DOIs, the order of it all. This checklist is the same pass I make as an editor, boiled down so you can do it yourself before you hand your work to your committee or submit to a journal or publisher.

●      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