I wish link sellers would stop fucking about with DA and offer traffic stats!!!!!! I don't care if you're DA10 or 60 if you get 30 organic visits a month your worthless to me. I want links from sites with traffic
Nofollow user generated content. Do follow sites you want to legitimately link to (you're citing them for a reason yeah?) - then reach out and tell them you linked and ask them to share on social or whatever.