Why should in-text citations be included within the body of your research paper?
a. to ensure that your audience knows that your sources are credible
b. to make connections between bits of information from several sources
c. to make it easy for your audience to find the sources of your information
d. to allow you to convey the information using your personal writing style

The third alternative is correct (C).

The importance of citations in the text are given for two reasons. The first is for your reader to have access, if you want, to the original source to confirm what was said or to delve into the subject. In addition, it is important to cite the author of the idea that is in his text, as a matter of copyright on intellectual production. Placing a perceptible idea to another without quote, can incur plagiarism, which is a crime of appropriating the intellectual production of another person.

no, but sometimes i do.