Write a paper on The History of Service Outsourcing? There must be at least three academic references per group member. So, a group with six members must have a minimum of 18 references. ? Also, 18 is the absolute minimum number of academic references. If you have fewer than six members, then some of these can be non-academic references. ? Papers can have as many or as few non-academic references as required. ? As a general rule, an academic reference is one that has citations for its sources. ? At least half of these citations must come from printed articles/journals and not from websites. ? The paper must use citations within the body of the paper. Any words/ideas in the body of the paper that are not your words need a citation. ? Any figures, photographs, or diagrams that you did not create require their own citation. ? It must contain a minimum of 4,000 words in the body of the paper. That is, the words in the table of contents and citations do not count towards the 4,000 minimum.