Answer,
To give credit to the source
Step-by-step explanation
-Citing a source means to show, within the body of a given text, that the writer took words, ideas, figures, images, etc. from another source.
-It is important to cite sourses you used in your research for several reasons ;
- To show the reader that proper research was done by listing all the sources used to get information
- To avoid plagiarism by quoting words and ideas used by other authors
- To allow the reader to track down the sources used by citing them accurately in the paper by way of footnotes, a bibliography or reference list