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In academic research papers and in any other writing that borrows information from sources, the borrowed information, quotations, summaries, paraphrases, and any facts or ideas that are not common knowledge, must be clearly documented.

The various academic disciplines use their own editorial styles for citing sources and for listing the works that have been cited: MLA style, used in English and the humanities; and APA style, used in the social sciences.