(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.