The Citation Machine

Dear All,

I'd like you to practise using the Citation Machine (http://www.citationmachine.net/), a special tool that can help you to create in-text and end-of the documents references correctly.

I'd like to ask you to use it and share the reference to the on-line resource you are going to use to write the essay in the thread

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