I have just found this info on copyright to help clarify that you can make references and quote sources in your articles...this extract was from the University of Berkeley...

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Why cite sources?
Whenever you quote or base your ideas on another person's work, you must document the source you used. Even when you do not quote directly from another work, if reading that source contributed to the ideas presented in your paper, you must give the authors proper credit.

Citations allow readers to locate and further explore the sources you consulted, show the depth and scope of your research, and give credit to authors for their ideas. Citations provide evidence for your arguments and add credibility to your work by demonstrating that you have sought out and considered a variety of resources. In written academic work, citing sources is standard practice and shows that you are responding to this person, agreeing with that person, and adding something of your own. Think of documenting your sources as providing a trail for your reader to follow to see the research you performed and discover what led you to your original contribution.

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Minti cannot display any Copyrighted Works that you are not an author of. That means, direct copy, cut and paste word for word of the entire article is a breach of global copyright rules.

You can quote a sentence word for word with inverted commas and quoting the source and providing a link to the source in "external links", you must do this as well for copyrighted images that are not your own.

You can talk about the article in your own words as much as you like, but if you write the words from the source "word for word" you must give credit to the authors by quoting the source.

Example article...
Hard work vs your smart, praising your child

More on Copyright: Fair Use
"Fair use is generally a short excerpt and almost always attributed. (One should not use much more of the work than is needed to make the commentary.) It should not harm the commercial value of the work -- in the sense of people no longer needing to buy it (which is another reason why reproduction of the entire work is a problem.) Famously, copying just 300 words from Gerald Ford's 200,000 word memoir for a magazine article was ruled as not fair use, in spite of it being very newsworthy, because it was the most important 300 words -- why he pardoned Nixon." Source