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Generally the rule of thumb with web pages is to treat the title of the page or the domain as the title of the inline citation, so if the page title is 'Google Public Data', go with that. In practice I think that 'Google' is a little too general, because of the number of products Google provide. You would also need to provide the url in your full citation.
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Why would citing "a well-known historical source" be any different from citing a not-particularly-well-known historical source?
For the speech: you found the speech somewhere, right? Book, website, magazine? Cite that source.
For the U.S. Constitution, a quick Google of "rules for citing US constitution in bibliography" turns up this link from the APA ...
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Note that these are discussions about style, not something like grammar; as such, there is no "correct" or "incorrect" way among the different choices. The best thing is to pick one style and stick to it. And, APA and MLA are just two out of dozens of commonly used styles of citation.
When considering which style to follow, you should also consider the ...
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The APA Style Blog recommends that you spell out the organization's name in your first use in the text of the article, then abbreviate in subsequent uses, including in-text citations.
If you include the citation many times in your paper, you might want to abbreviate the group author name. If so, this introduction should be included with the first use in ...
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Yes, you should capitalize the name as you should other proper nouns. See this article and the links within: http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2012/02/how-to-capitalize-author-names-in-apa-style.html
You can preserve the capitals for the proper nouns by using braces:
title={An encounter with {D}avid {H}ume}
I believe with JabRef you can go to preferences ...
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My first thought was "Why not start with the Web site you mentioned and take the Basics Tutorial?" You mention that you learn best with "applied project-based learning," but you cannot work on projects without first having a least a little knowledge of the topic -- it's a "chicken and egg" thing. I would look at the tutorial, because they provide examples ...
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