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What needs to be cited here is that the United States already spent billions to reconstruct Iraq, from 2003-2010.
In contrast, a published article faces significant delays before it eventually appears in citation datasets: it first needs to be cited in a new article that itself faces publication delays [11], [12], and subsequently those citations need to be picked up by citation databases.
If so, an example needs to be cited.
Thus, for a citation to count towards a journal's impact factor, it needs to be cited within two years of publication.
That perplexing aspect of the Basra registry study – that those data indicate zero cases of hydrocephalus among the 100,000 births during the years 1990 – 98 and an unusually high incidence of the malformation, by any international standard, in 1999 2000 needs to be cited.
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It does not need to be cited.
But in this case the Federalist Papers need to be cited.
None of his scenes really need to be cited in proof; everybody knows all of them too well.
So, if it's known to educated people, or can be easily looked up, or appears in many sources, it is likely to be "common knowledge" and so does not need to be cited.
This means any books you have used when researching your assignments need to be cited, either in the footnotes to your work or at the end in a bibliography.
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