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A citation or '''bibliographic citation''' is a reference to a Book , Article , Web Page , or other published item with sufficient detail to identify the item uniquely. Unpublished writings or speech, such as Working Paper s and personal communications, are also sometimes cited. Citations are provided in Scholarly Work s, Bibliographies , and Index es. The word ''citation'' may also mean the act of citing a work, that is, providing a reference to the work in the form of a bibliographic citation.

Citation s are used in scholarly works to give credit to or acknowledge the influence of previous works, or to refer to authorities. Citations permit readers to put claims to the test by consulting earlier works. Authors often engage earlier work directly, explaining why they agree with, or differ from, earlier views. Ideally, sources are Primary (first-hand) and recent.

Varying rules and practices for citations apply in Scientific Citation , Legal Citation , Theological Citation , Prior Art , Patent Law , and Copyright Law . Definitions of Plagiarism , uniqueness, Innovation , trustworthiness, and reliability vary so widely among these fields that the use of citations has no simple common practice.

Citations may be made in the body of text as Parenthetical Citation s, in Footnote s at the bottom of pages, or in Endnote s at the end of a document. They may also be listed in a “works cited” page or section, in a Bibliography , or in a list of Reference s.

The recording, use, and reuse of citations on computers is facilitated by Reference Management Software , also known as citation management software.

Citation Index es list published citations between various works. In addition to being used for bibliographic discovery, they are used in Bibliometrics for citation analysis and the calculation of Citation Impact .


CONTENT

Citations of a book generally include at least author(s), book title, publisher, and date of publication. Citations of a journal article generally include at least author(s), article title, journal title, volume, pages, and date of publication.

Citations of a work on the Internet usually include at least a URL and a date when the work was accessed.


FORMAT STYLES

There are a number of different guides which set styles for the format of citations.

Some works are so long established as to have their own citation methods: Stephanus Pagination for Plato ; Bekker Numbers for Aristotle ; line numbers in poems; Bible Citation by book, chapter and verse; or Shakespeare notation by play, act and scene.

Various organizations have created systems of citation to fit their needs. Some of the most important are:


  • The APA Style is the American Psychological Association style format which is most often used in Social Sciences . APA style lists sources at the end of the paper, on a References Page. Listing electronic sources of information is more detailed in APA style than in MLA style. APA style uses Parenthetical Citation within the text, listing the author's name and the year the work was made. These work much like the MLA style's parenthetical citations.




  • The s which are either separate sentences or separate clauses. Inline citation is controversial among lawyers, because it is thought to be one of the reasons why most laypersons find legal writing hard to read.



  • The Chicago Style was developed and its guide is ''The Chicago Manual of Style''. Some social sciences and humanities scholars use the nearly identical Turabian style.


  • The Columbia Style was made by Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor to give detailed guidelines for citing internet sources. Columbia Style offers models for both the humanities and the sciences. More information can be found in '' The Columbia Guide to Online Style ''.


  • The Harvard Style is recommended by the British Standards Institution and involves a short reference (e.g Smith, 2000) being inserted after the cited text in parenthesis and the full reference being listed at the end of the article.


  • The IEEE Style is commonly used in technical fields, particularly in Computer Science . In IEEE style, citations are numbered, but citation numbers are included in the text in square brackets rather than as superscripts. All bibliographical information is exclusively included in the list of references at the end of the document, next to the respective citation number. For more information, see IEEE Style Documentation .


  • The MHRA Style Guide is the Modern Humanities Research Association style format and is most often used in the arts and humanities, particularly in the United Kingdom where the MHRA is based. It is fairly similar to the MLA style, but with some differences. The style guide uses footnotes that fully reference a citation and has a bibliography at the end. Its major advantage is that a reader does not need to consult the bibliography to find a reference as the footnote provides all the details. The guide is available for free download {Link without Title} .


  • MLA Style was developed by The Modern Language Association and is most often used in English Studies , Comparative Literature , foreign-language Literary Criticism , and some other fields in the Humanities . MLA style uses a Works Cited Page to list works at the end of the paper. Brief parenthetical citations, which include an author and page (if applicable), are used within the text. These direct readers to the work of the author on the list of works cited, and the page of the work where the information is located (e.g. (Smith 107) refers the reader to page 107 of the work made by someone named Smith). More information can be found in the ''MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers''.




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1. [http://www.lib.fsu.edu/glossary Florida State University libraries]