One of the issues I encounter is that students use online sources to develop citations and references, but often those sources are incorrect. The citation generator will create a MOSTLY correct APA reference, for example, but it's not quite right in terms of actual APA standards. I'll make the corrections, and students are confused as to why a generated reference is not acceptable.
How do you handle this? I tell students that the definitive guide is the actual APA manual, but I know that not all students are going to purchase that manual, and frankly, undergraduate students probably don't benefit from it much.
