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I've writen my Ph.D. thesis and have imported all the references from google scholar. Now, at the end of the day(!), I have noticed that they are not compatible with each other. Here are some examples of what I have got from google and my problems:

@inproceedings{finin2010annotating,
      title={Annotating named entities in Twitter data with crowdsourcing},
      author={Finin, Tim and Murnane, Will and Karandikar, Anand and Keller, Nicholas and Martineau, Justin and Dredze, Mark},
      booktitle={Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Creating Speech and Language Data with Amazon's Mechanical Turk},
      pages={80--88},
      year={2010},
      organization={Association for Computational Linguistics}
    }

@inproceedings{leidner2003grounding,
  title={Grounding spatial named entities for information extraction and question answering},
  author={Leidner, Jochen L and Sinclair, Gail and Webber, Bonnie},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2003 workshop on Analysis of geographic references-Volume 1},
  pages={31--38},
  year={2003},
  organization={Association for Computational Linguistics}
}

1) As you can see, HLT-NAACL is written differently in the two references.

2) Some referencse have organization (like the above examples) and some don't.

3) There are some acrynoms (for instance, ACL in the above examples for Association for Computational Linguistics) which are used for some references, but for some not. That is, in some cases I have the full name and in some cases, I have just the short form.

4) The google scholar doesn't have all the information for all papers/books. For example, I have a reference like this:

@article{fillmore1967case,
  title={The case for case.},
  author={Fillmore, Charles J},
  year={1967},
  publisher={ERIC}
}

In my code, I am using \bibliographystyle{apacite} (see my code at the end) and in the text, it looks good and everything is fine, but in the reference list, there are the above shortcomings.

Now, I have the following questions:

Is there anyway to make all the references compatible?

Does APA need Organization for each reference? If it doesn't why does mym code show it at the end of the references which have it, and if it does, why don't I get any error or warning regarding that? Is there anyway to make the code do that?

Generally speaking, what can I do to make my references similar to each other?

My code (if helps):

\documentclass[11pt, oneside]{Thesis}
\begin{document}

\label{Bibliography}
\bibliographystyle{apacite}
%\bibliographystyle{apa} 

\bibliography{Bibliography} 
\end{document}
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    There is not much that can be done automatically. You will have to go through all your entries and check for errors and other problems and then adjust them. – Ulrike Fischer Oct 06 '17 at 22:35
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    You cannot save a lot of time using predefined bib entries. You have to fix the stuff that is wrong. Just as with the terrible template you are using. – Johannes_B Oct 06 '17 at 23:41
  • The portion of your posting that's related to Google Scholar is clearly off-topic for this site. Google Scholar relies on a lot of volunteers to create the bibliographic entries. To expect such entries to adhere to consistent style guidelines-- let alone be factually correct and complete -- is not realistic. You must anticipate performing a lot of checking and hand-correcting of whatever you obtain from Google Scholar. Please edit your posting to focus it on what the apacite bibliography style can and/or should be expected to do, in terms of creating formatted bibliographic entries. – Mico Oct 07 '17 at 00:34
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