Citation practices

How it is used

Used in academic writing instruction, style guidance, and plagiarism discussions. It often refers to disciplinary norms as well as formatting rules.

Example sentences

1. The workshop compared citation practices in history and engineering, showing how differently each field integrates sources into arguments.

   Here, the term means field-specific habits of using sources, not just punctuation or reference-list formatting.

2. Our department reviewed students' citation practices after several essays relied on quotations without adequate in-text references.

   In this sentence, the term refers to students' actual habits of acknowledging sources appropriately within their writing.

Common collocations

• disciplinary citation practices
• review citation practices
• citation practices vary

Related terms

• citeTo mention a source, such as a book or article, in your writing to show where an idea, fact or quotation comes from.
• citationA 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.

More terms: Citing and Referencing

• reference list
• paraphrase
• in-text citation
• direct quotation
• et al.
• APA style
• bibliography
• DOI
• reporting verb
• footnote
• reference manager
• Harvard referencing