What's the difference between citation and cite?

Citation


Definition:

  • (n.) An official summons or notice given to a person to appear; the paper containing such summons or notice.
  • (n.) The act of citing a passage from a book, or from another person, in his own words; also, the passage or words quoted; quotation.
  • (n.) Enumeration; mention; as, a citation of facts.
  • (n.) A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A manual search, derived from the references of these papers, was performed to obtain relevant citations for the years preceding 1970.
  • (2) Findings and conclusions cover the value of a core collection of journals, length of journal files, performance of certain bibliographic instruments in citation verification, and the implications of study data for library planning and management.
  • (3) More than 500 articles and books are organized by topic in a Citation Index giving authors and dates.
  • (4) OSHA issued citations in 94% of the cases, with fines ranging up to $58,400; the average fine was $1,991 per death.
  • (5) These three factors were also independently associated with more citations to participants' published work (P less than .05).
  • (6) Some suggestions for reducing these high levels of inaccuracy are that papers scheduled for publication with errors of citation should be returned to the author and checked completely and a permanent column specifically for misquotations could be inserted into the journal.
  • (7) Citations retrieved from the storesearch are input into an in-house computerized data base.
  • (8) Eighty-four percent of the discrete citations retrieved were from 664 periodicals subscribed to by both services.
  • (9) An analysis of biomedical engineering core journals provides statistical data about citation patterns in this discipline.
  • (10) The citations in the literature include only case reports.
  • (11) A citation for the honour came from one of his former pupils, Sarah Brown, the chancellor's wife.
  • (12) Fifty randomly selected references from a single monthly issue of The American Journal of Surgery; Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics; and Surgery were evaluated for citation and quotation errors.
  • (13) The number of citations found among 126 different databases and abstracting services that were examined varied: 39 had no citations to mosquitoes, but 13 (including life-sciences, medical and even popular-literature databases) had greater than 100 citations.
  • (14) Writing a chapter on retinal GABAB receptors is premature, as evidenced by the paucity of citations more than two years old.
  • (15) The unquestioning citation of a dogma of the Ancients until modern times is a common phenomenon in medical history.
  • (16) Computerized MEDLINE and SCIENCE CITATION searches were combined with review of reference lists from book chapters and articles to identify published randomized trials on steroid interventions.
  • (17) The official citation for the asteroid reads: "Iain M. Banks (1954-2013) was a Scottish writer best known for the Culture series of science fiction novels; he also wrote fiction as Iain Banks.
  • (18) Accompanying the article are tables of cases broken down by court system and by subject matter, and a subject compilation of 320 case citations.
  • (19) These structure-activity methods are introduced, and citations are given.
  • (20) However, the distribution of citation frequency values within a journal is extremely broad and skewed; therefore assigning the same value to all articles would not seem to serve the purpose of evaluation particularly well.

Cite


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To call upon officially or authoritatively to appear, as before a court; to summon.
  • (v. t.) To urge; to enjoin.
  • (v. t.) To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
  • (v. t.) To refer to or specify, as for support, proof, illustration, or confirmation.
  • (v. t.) To bespeak; to indicate.
  • (v. t.) To notify of a proceeding in court.

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