Citations serve to give credit to an original author or owner of a particular work, and provide a trail back to the original source. Citations prove that you didn’t make up or steal information, also known as plagiarism. Citations also allow other scholars and professionals to check your work or learn more about a given topic. When writing, you can use Quetext’s plagiarism checker to flag any instances that should be cited and generate that citation on the spot. You can also use the standalone Citation Generator to easily create and format your citations outside of checking for plagiarism. These properly formatted references allow others to easily validate your writing or educate themselves further on the topic at hand.