: Re: How often to cite sources? I'm writing a 3700-word essay, consisting of two case studies and some explanatory material. I'll be referencing a number of documents as sources for the case studies.

Depends on what quality you want to maintain. For high quality you would want to do citations every time you

1)"say something, which is based on information/data from one of the sources?"

2) and "when quoting or paraphrasing, or repeating facts/figures"

If you are submitting your manuscript for review by academic sources you might get accused of plagiarism if you don't. Peer reviewers would reject them. Either way, its bad.

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