Did you know that APA 7 has strict rules around copyright attribution for tables and figures that appear in your manuscript? This applies anytime you reproduce or adapt a table, figure, or image from another source.

Every so often, a client reaches out with a message that starts something like: “My dissertation is basically done—can you do a quick APA check?” I always smile when I read these messages, because I know what’s coming next. My first step in any APA review is to run a reference report. This report compares in-text citations with reference entries and catches the mismatches, omissions, and formatting inconsistencies that inevitably sneak in.