: Re: How to write references? I am writing a document for my project, and some information is from another website, I didn't copy the text but use their data, do I need to write that website in

If their data is used in your work, you have to reference them. This is important for several reasons:

It shows that you didn't just make up that data on the spot.
It doesn't give the false impression that you gathered the data yourself. If you didn't do something, you should not pretend to have done it.
It allows the readers to evaluate the source of the data by themselves. Otherwise they would have to rely on you having a good judgement of the source.
In case you don't provide the data itself in your text, it allows the readers to get at the data in order to replicate your results.
And last not least, it gives credit to those people who did the work of gathering the data.

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