Self Referencing Loop Detected - Entity Framework

Error received:
self referencing loop detected for propert with type System.data.entity.dynamic.proxiesOccurs when trying to serialize the EF object collection directly.Some ways correcting:

Add to the db context constructor:

Configuration.ProxyCreationEnabled = false;

Or (better way),

HttpConfiguration config = GlobalConfiguration.Configuration;

config.Formatters.JsonFormatter
            .SerializerSettings
            .ReferenceLoopHandling = Newtonsoft.Json.ReferenceLoopHandling.Ignore

Other ways of correcting found at Stackoverflow

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