For your Biology Qual, pick a citation style and stick with it - consistency is key.
Academic writing requires that you acknowledge use of the intellectual work of others. These are some of the most common situations that require that you identify and give credit to the work of others:
A direct quote from a text.
A direct quote from someone else’s writing about that text.
Paraphrasing of the ideas of another writer.
Paraphrasing the findings of a paper.
It is not necessary to give credit for commonly known facts or expressions ("the sky is blue"). [1]
[1] The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), 444-45.
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