(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.
Summons
Definition:
(v.) The act of summoning; a call by authority, or by the command of a superior, to appear at a place named, or to attend to some duty.
(v.) A warning or citation to appear in court; a written notification signed by the proper officer, to be served on a person, warning him to appear in court at a day specified, to answer to the plaintiff, testify as a witness, or the like.
(v.) A demand to surrender.
(v. t.) To summon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Senior executives at Network Rail are likely to be summoned to Westminster to explain the engineering overruns that caused chaos for Christmas travellers over the weekend.
(2) After five days watching birds illegally shot down and becoming embroiled in tense stand-offs with the police and hunters, Packham was summoned to a police station and interviewed for five hours.
(3) Had not Jaggers summoned me to see him on the day of my majority some years later, I might have wondered at the psychological implausibility of an old woman training a child to be a psychopath, but luckily I was so caught up by the possibility of my benefactor's name being revealed that the thought quite slipped my mind.
(4) Letterman was summoned to a grand jury hearing later yesterday at which he gave his side of the story.
(5) Chelsea must summon a response at Atlético Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final on Tuesday, trying to blot out the memory of the lead that was surrendered so wastefully here.
(6) RPC wrote back the next day saying Ashley was in the US and complained that the official had mentioned the prospect of a formal summons for Ashley: “Raising the spectre of a summons, in circumstances where our client has already volunteered the chairman as a witness to assist the committee and we are now liaising over availability, is, in our client’s view, inappropriate.” In the email, RPC said Hellawell was no longer available on 4 March but was now free on 25 March.
(7) Horrocks plans to summon the spirit of Margaret Thatcher to make his case: “The [1970] Conservative government came in with a manifesto commitment to kill the Open University, to kill Harold Wilson’s brainchild at birth.
(8) The banalities of a news conference take on a strange significance when the men who summon the world's cameras are members of a feared insurgent group that banned television when they ruled Afghanistan and sheltered al-Qaida.
(9) The French president, François Hollande, summoned key ministers to a crisis meeting on Thursday afternoon, postponing a planned visit to France's Indian Ocean territories.
(10) But among the football-faith community the legendary Anfield Road stadium is not considered a sacred site for nothing, and on this memorable night everyone felt what mighty magic can be summoned here.” Describing the match as “a classic in the illustrious history of these two clubs for years to come”, the commentator Daniel Theweleit also believed that the atmosphere at Anfield put Dortmund’s own famed fan culture into the shade: “Even those who have watched the club for centuries agreed that Dortmund has never achieved this kind of intensity.” Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung found satisfaction in seeing the German coach Jürgen Klopp exporting his magic touch across the Channel.
(11) The Chelsea manager, José Mourinho, is anticipating a Football Association summons after Saturday’s loss to Southampton .
(12) The former Liverpool, Chelsea and Real Madrid coach made an immediate impact, interrupting a scheduled squad day off by summoning his players for an introductory meeting and training session on Friday afternoon.
(13) The shooting down of the plane comes the day after Turkey called for a UN security council meeting to discuss Russian actions in Syria, following the summoning of the Russian ambassador in Ankara to hear a protest over air attacks on Turkmen villages.
(14) So why is a CEO such as Marissa Mayer summoning Yahoo staff back into the office ?
(15) Around 400 attended court on Friday, most of them responding to a court summons for the first time, many of them anxious and angry about the process.
(16) In addition, BBC executives and trustees were summoned by parliamentary committees more than once a month.
(17) "Some of you may have heard we have a new judge this year," said Forsyth, summoning his finest brow-raise and hauling the audience at least temporarily on side by sheer force of showbiz will.
(18) Stanley stood up, summoned his secretary and said: "Call my bookie."
(19) The general atmosphere was that there was no point in summoning the police – the policeman is a local settler from Kiryat Arba who comes to pray with the Hebron settlers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs on Fridays.
(20) The Brexiters, by summoning up the patriotic genie, are implicitly calling on Britons to either become more parochial and less diverse – or else aspire to a second imperial age.