It's important to cite sources you used in your research for several reasons:
To demonstrate that you've done proper research by listing the sources that you used to get your information.
To be a responsible scholar by giving credit to other researchers and acknowledging their ideas.
To avoid plagiarism by quoting words and ideas used by other authors.
To allow your reader to track down the sources you used by citing them accurately in your paper by way of a bibliography, reference page, or works cited list.
If you have a citation on your Reference or Works Cited page, there must be a matching parenthetical or in-text citation in the body of your paper and vice versa.
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