My new discoveries about academic citation

Call me crazy, but I am glad to be getting some experience with APA format. APA is the style I will encounter and use in my field, so I was anxious to trade in APA for MLA while writing papers in previous semesters. The citing is definitely different than MLA. First of all, it is interesting to only use the first initial of the author’s name instead of the full first and last name. My psychology professor, M. Hrabic, said that this is to avoid gender discrimination when reading scientific articles (2015). Do you like how I did that? 😉 Second, putting the url, or I think they call it DOI on the GSU tutorial, is new to me. Since we will be increasingly using online sources, my references pages may look like a list of urls (with some other stuff, of course). Last, the date of retrieval always tripped me up on MLA if I forgot to write it down the day I found a source. In APA though, I need to go a step further and make sure the date I retrieved the source is on the website, or still list it on my references page. Is that the correct interpretation of that rule in your opinion?

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