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Citation

Meaning in academic english & research, with examples

/saɪˈteɪʃn/nounCore term

In academic english & research, citation means: A reference to a source in a piece of writing; also each time another publication refers to a work, counted as a measure of its influence.

In Turkish: atıf, kaynak gösterme, künye

How it is used

Has two common meanings: the reference you write (an in-text citation, a full citation in the reference list) and the citations a paper receives, which Google Scholar, Scopus and Web of Science track and which are used when researchers are evaluated.

Example sentences

  1. Check that every citation in the text appears in your reference list.

  2. Her 2015 article now has over 500 citations on Google Scholar.

Common collocations

  • citation style
  • citation count
  • receive citations
  • full citation
  • citation index
  • citeTo mention a source, such as a book or article, in your writing to show where an idea, fact or quotation comes from.
  • in-text citationA short reference inside the main text, such as (Yılmaz, 2021) or a number [3], that points the reader to the full entry in the reference list.
  • reference listThe list at the end of a paper or thesis giving full details of every source cited in the text, arranged in the order a citation style requires.
  • APA styleThe writing and citation rules of the American Psychological Association, based on author-date citations and widely used in the social sciences, education and psychology.
  • impact factorA yearly measure of how often articles in a journal are cited on average, based on citations in one year to items published in the two previous years.

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