What does Citation mean?
Definitions for Citation
saɪˈteɪ ʃənci·ta·tion
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Citation.
Princeton's WordNet
citation, commendationnoun
an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement
citationnoun
(law) the act of citing (as of spoken words or written passages or legal precedents etc.)
citation, cite, acknowledgment, credit, reference, mention, quotationnoun
a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
"the student's essay failed to list several important citations"; "the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book"; "the article includes mention of similar clinical cases"
quotation, quote, citationnoun
a passage or expression that is quoted or cited
citationnoun
a summons that commands the appearance of a party at a proceeding
Citationnoun
thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1948
Wiktionary
citationnoun
An official summons or notice given to a person to appear; the paper containing such summons or notice.
citationnoun
The act of citing a passage from a book, or from another person, in his own words.
citationnoun
The passage or words quoted; quotation.
citationnoun
Enumeration; mention; as, a citation of facts.
citationnoun
A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law.
citationnoun
A commendation in recognition of some achievement, or a formal statement of an achievement.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Citationnoun
1.The calling a person before the judge, for the sake of trying the cause of action commenced against him. John Ayliffe
Etymology: citatio, Latin.
The letter-writter cannot read these citations without blushing, after the charge he hath advanced. Francis Atterbury, Serm. Pref.
View the principles of parties represented in their own authors, and not in the citations of those who would confute them. Isaac Watts, Improvement on the Mind.
These causes effect a consumption, endemick to this island: there remains a citation of such as may produce it in any country. Gideon Harvey, on Consumptions.
Wikipedia
Citation
A citation is a reference to a source. More precisely, a citation is an abbreviated alphanumeric expression embedded in the body of an intellectual work that denotes an entry in the bibliographic references section of the work for the purpose of acknowledging the relevance of the works of others to the topic of discussion at the spot where the citation appears. Generally, the combination of both the in-body citation and the bibliographic entry constitutes what is commonly thought of as a citation (whereas bibliographic entries by themselves are not). Citations have several important purposes. While their uses for upholding intellectual honesty and bolstering claims are typically foregrounded in teaching materials and style guides (e.g.,), correct attribution of insights to previous sources is just one of these purposes. Linguistic analysis of citation-practices has indicated that they also serve critical roles in orchestrating the state of knowledge on a particular topic, identifying gaps in the existing knowledge that should be filled or describing areas where inquiries should be continued or replicated. Citation has also been identified as a critical means by which researchers establish stance: aligning themselves with or against subgroups of fellow researchers working on similar projects and staking out opportunities for creating new knowledge.Conventions of citation (e.g., placement of dates within parentheses, superscripted endnotes vs. footnotes, colons or commas for page numbers, etc.) vary by the citation-system used (e.g., Oxford, Harvard, MLA, NLM, American Sociological Association (ASA), American Psychological Association (APA), etc.). Each system is associated with different academic disciplines, and academic journals associated with these disciplines maintain the relevant citational style by recommending and adhering to the relevant style guides.
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citation
A citation is a reference to a source of information used in research or academic work. It provides detailed information about the source such as the author's name, title of the work, publication date, publisher, and page numbers, allowing readers to easily locate and verify the original source. It also serves as a way to give credit to the original author and to avoid plagiarism.
Webster Dictionary
Citationnoun
an official summons or notice given to a person to appear; the paper containing such summons or notice
Citationnoun
the act of citing a passage from a book, or from another person, in his own words; also, the passage or words quoted; quotation
Citationnoun
enumeration; mention; as, a citation of facts
Citationnoun
a reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law
Etymology: [F. citation, LL. citatio, fr.L. citare to cite. See Cite]
Wikidata
Citation
Broadly, a citation is a reference to a published or unpublished source. More precisely, a citation is an abbreviated alphanumeric expression embedded in the body of an intellectual work that denotes an entry in the bibliographic references section of the work for the purpose of acknowledging the relevance of the works of others to the topic of discussion at the spot where the citation appears. Generally the combination of both the in-body citation and the bibliographic entry constitutes what is commonly thought of as a citation. References to single, machine-readable assertions in electronic scientific articles are known as nanopublications, a form of microattribution. Citation has several important purposes: to uphold intellectual honesty, to attribute prior or unoriginal work and ideas to the correct sources, to allow the reader to determine independently whether the referenced material supports the author's argument in the claimed way, and to help the reader gauge the strength and validity of the material the author has used. The forms of citations generally subscribe to one of the generally accepted citations systems, such as the Oxford, Harvard, MLA, American Sociological Association, American Psychological Association, and other citations systems, as their syntactic conventions are widely known and easily interpreted by readers. Each of these citation systems has its respective advantages and disadvantages relative to the trade-offs of being informative and thus are chosen relative to the needs of the type of publication being crafted. Editors will often specify the citation system to use.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Citation in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Citation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of Citation in a Sentence
South Alabama spokesman Bob Lowry:
Upon further investigation, it has been determined that the citation should not have been issued and it has been rescinded.
We began to see yesterday, in the face of the possibility of either a criminal contempt citation or proceeding with inherent contempt that they began to see things differently all of a sudden.
The crowd broke up, which is what we wanted, he qualified for a notice to appear, which is what we call the citation, he was written a citation and released.
When we are encountering people on patrols, out and about, and we are seeing that they do not have their mask on when they are in public and around other people, we will provide the necessary warning, and then a failure to heed to that warning will lead to a citation and a $ 250 fine.
It works very well for me, for the smaller airports, the (Cessna) Citation X, and for the larger airports, the Boeing 757.
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- تنويهArabic
- позоваване, цитат, призовка, изброяване, цитиранеBulgarian
- citation, citeringDanish
- Vorladung, Literaturstelle, Zitierung, ehrenvolle Erwähnung, ZitatGerman
- περικοπή, εύφημος μνεία, κλήτευση, κλήση, χωρίο, παράθεμα, παράθεση, μνεία, κατάλογος, εδάφιο, αναφορά, παραπομπή, απαρίθμησηGreek
- cita, citaciónSpanish
- sitaatti, viite, lainausFinnish
- उद्धरणHindi
- 소환Korean
- kupu hautoaMāori
- citaçãoPortuguese
- citare, citatRomanian
- ссылка, пове́стка, упоминание, вызов, цитата, перечисление, цитирование, [[объявление]] [[благодарностьRussian
- navodSerbo-Croatian
- சான்றுTamil
- citationTelugu
- การอ้างอิงThai
- trích dẫnVietnamese
- 引文Chinese
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