When writing a research paper and writing a reference page, should you include in the paper that you are writing the refence number after the sentence, or can you just list the references on a separate sheet of paper and call it done?

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You can do that. Or ...

In today's world, you need to include a Works Cited page at the end of the paper (used to be called a bibliography) and cite each quotation, summary, or paraphrase in parentheses IN THE TEXT.

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The link above gives you information about researching, quoting properly (and not plagiarizing!), citing, etc., according to MLA guidelines.

Here's a similar website for APA guidelines:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

If you need another format, let us know.