Information such as author, title, pagination, and dates which identifies an item - book, journal article, or other format Sufficient information is included to locate the original item
A citation is a reference or footnote to an item (such as a book or periodical article); a citation contains the author, title, date of publication and any other information needed to locate the item
A brief reference to an article, book or other type of material Citations usually include the following information - author, title, source, place and date of publication When you look at a bibliography or search an index, you retrieve citations Often citations retrieved from an index will include additional information such as journal title and page number This information makes it easier to locate the actual article being cited
a reference to an item from which a quotation or information was taken or to which a person is being directed Includes enough information to locate the original item For example: a book citation would include author, title, place of publication, publisher and date of publication; an article citation would include author, title, name of periodical, date, and page reference A citation may be found in a research paper, a periodical index, or in a catalogue
an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement
A statement, often abbreviated, on information about a publication Usually includes author, title, volume number, pages
A reference or footnote to a book, a magazine or journal article, or another source It contains all the information necessary to identify and locate the work, including author, title, publisher, date, volume, issue number, and pages
A citation is an official document or speech which praises a person for something brave or special that they have done. His citation says he showed outstanding and exemplary courage
Complete information about a specific item It may be a reference to a text that has been quoted, or to some source that has been used as an authority A citation for a book includes author, title, place of publication, publisher, and year A citation for an article in a periodical includes author, title of the article, title of the periodical, volume number, pages, and date A single citation is sometimes called a reference A group of citations gathered together is usually called a bibliography
A reference or listing of the key pieces of information about a work that make it possible to identify and locate it again The elements of a citation normally include author, title, place of publication, publisher, and date of publication for a book; and journal title, volume, number, issue, year, and page numbers for an article The exact form of the citation depends on the academic discipline; ask your professor A group of citations are collected in a bibliography When you search in an index or database, you retrieve citations
(law) the act of citing (as of spoken words or written passages or legal precedents etc
thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1948 a summons that commands the appearance of a party at a proceeding an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; "the student's essay failed to list several important citations"; "the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book"; "the article includes mention of similar clinical cases"
A reference to a work, such as a book or a journal article A citation includes the author, title, publication place, and year of a work Other information, such as edition and page number, may be included
The act of citing a passage from a book, or from another person, in his own words; also, the passage or words quoted; quotation
a reference to a publication, book, or article, etc For a book, the information given in each citation consists of 1) author; 2) title; 3) place of publication; 4) publisher and 5) date of publication For a periodical article, each citation includes the author and title of the article, plus the name of the periodical, the volume, date, and page numbers of the issue in which the article appears Citations must be written in a correct format by following the Style Manual of a particular discipline For example, the field of psychology uses the Style Manual published by the American Psychological Association (APA) There are different style manuals for a number of disciplines Be sure to follow the style manual recommended by your instructor Then two most used citation styles at MiraCosta College are the APA and the MLA (Modern Language Association) style for papers written in the humanities