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Part of the responsibility of the professional librarian is to stay abreast of the current body of literature, to add to that body, and to disseminate that information to others. The American Psychological Association (2010) notes that, “Research is complete only when the results are shared with the scientific community…just as each investigator benefits from the publication process, so the body of scientific literature depends for its vitality on the active participation of individual investigators” (p. 9).  MIT Libraries' web page  (Links to an external site.) offers several reasons for providing proper citation in your scholarly work. To show your reader you've done proper research by listing sources you used to get your information To be a responsible scholar by giving credit to other researchers and acknowledging their ideas To avoid plagiarism  (Links to an external site.) 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 footnotes, a bibliography or reference list. Scholarly writing is somewhat dissimilar from other types of writing.  Here, a more formal “voice” is required, one that relies on the expert opinions of others (based on your review of the literature surrounding the topic).  When you give “facts” in a scholarly paper, unless the information is common knowledge (“the sky is blue”), citation should be given.  Any citation that is used in the main text of the document will also be listed on a separate References page in an APA styled document.