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| {{selfref|For Wikipedia's citation policies, see [[Wikipedia:Citing sources]] and [[Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia]]. For other uses, see [[Citation (disambiguation)]]}}
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| A '''citation''' or '''bibliographic citation''' is a reference to a [[book]], [[article (publishing)|article]], [[web page]], or other published item with sufficient details to identify the item uniquely. Unpublished writings or speech, such as [[working paper]]s or personal communications, are also sometimes cited. Citations are provided in [[scholarly work]]s, [[bibliography|bibliographies]] and [[index]]es. The word ''citation'' may also mean: the act of citing a work, that is, providing a reference to the work in the form of a bibliographic citation.
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| [[Rumination]]s are used in scholarly works to give credit to or to acknowledge the influence of previous works or to refer to authority. Citations permit readers to put claims to the test by consulting earlier works. Authors often engage earlier work directly, explaining why they agree or differ from earlier views. Ideally, sources are [[primary source|primary]] (first-hand), recent, with good [[ethos]], [[credential]]s, and citations.
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| Varying rules and practices for citations apply in [[scientific citation]], [[legal citation]], the [[theology citation]] of authority (e.g. the [[isnad]] which "back" the [[hadith]] in [[Islam]]), the [[prior art]] that applies in [[patent law]], and marks applied in [[copyright]]. Definitions of [[plagiarism]], uniqueness or [[innovation]], trustworthiness or reliability vary so widely among these fields that the use of citations has no simple common practice.
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| Citations may be made in the body of text as [[parenthetical citation]]s, in [[footnote]]s at the bottom of pages, or in [[endnote]]s at the end of the document. They are generally also listed in a '''works cited''' page or section—also called the [[bibliography]], source list or list of [[reference]]s. The recording, use and re-use of citations on computers is facilitated by [[reference management software]], also known as citation management software.
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| [[Citation index|Citation indices]] list published citations of a given work. In addition to being used for bibliographic discovery, they are used in [[bibliometrics]] for citation analysis and calculation of [[citation impact]].
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| == Content ==
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| Citations to a book generally include at least author(s), book title, publisher and date of publication. Citations to a journal article generally include at least author(s), article title, journal title, volume, date of publication and page numbers. Citations to a work on the Internet usually include at least a [[URL]] and a date that the work was accessed.
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| == Format styles ==
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| There are a number of different guides which set styles for the format of citations.
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| Some works are so long established as to have their own citation methods: [[Stephanus pagination]] for [[Plato]]; [[Bekker numbers]] for [[Aristotle]]; line numbers in poems; [[Bible citation]] by book, chapter and verse; or [[Shakespeare]] notation by play, act and scene.
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| Various organizations have created systems of citation to fit their needs. Some of the most important are:
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| *The [[ACS style]] is the [[American Chemical Society]] style format and is often used in chemical literature.
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| *The [[APA style]] is the [[American Psychological Association]] style format which is most often used in [[social sciences]]. APA style lists sources at the end of the paper, on a References Page. Listing electronic sources of information is more detailed in APA style than in MLA style. APA style uses [[parenthetical citation]] within the text, listing the author's name and the year the work was made. These work much like the MLA style's parenthetical citations.
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| * The [[American Political Science Association]] (APSA) publication on citation is the [[Style Manual for Political Science]], which is a system often used by political science scholars and historians. It is largely based on that of the Chicago Manual of Style.
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| * The [[ASA style]] of [[American Sociological Association]] is one of the main styles used in [[sociological]] publications
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| *The [[Bluebook]] is a citation system traditionally used in American academic legal writing, and the Bluebook (or similar systems derived from it) are used by many courts. The dominance of the Bluebook is currently being challenged by the newer [[ALWD Citation Manual]]. At present, academic legal articles are always footnoted, but motions submitted to courts and court opinions traditionally use [[inline citation]]s which are either separate sentences or separate clauses. Inline citation is controversial among lawyers, because it is thought to be one of the reasons why most laypersons find legal writing hard to read.
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| *The [[CBE style]] is the [[Council of Biology Editors]] style format, which is most often used in scientific papers and research.
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| *The [[The Chicago Manual of Style|Chicago Style]] was developed and its guide is ''The Chicago Manual of Style''. Some social sciences and humanities scholars use the nearly identical [[Turabian]] style.
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| *The [[Columbia Style]] was made by Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor to give detailed guidelines for citing internet sources. Columbia Style offers models for both the humanities and the sciences. More information can be found in ''[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/index.html The Columbia Guide to Online Style]''.
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| *The [[Harvard referencing|Harvard Style]] is recommended by the British Standards Institution and involves a short reference (e.g Smith, 2000) being inserted after the cited text in parenthesis and the full reference being listed at the end of the article.
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| *The [[IEEE Style]] is commonly used in technical fields, particularly in [[computer science]]. In IEEE style, citations are numbered, but citation numbers are included in the text in square brackets rather than as superscripts. All bibliographical information is exclusively included in the list of references at the end of the document, next to the respective citation number. For more information, see [http://www.ecf.toronto.edu/~writing/handbook-docum1b.html IEEE Style Documentation].
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| *The [[MHRA Style Guide]] is the [[Modern Humanities Research Association]] style format and is most often used in the arts and humanities, particularly in the [[United Kingdom]] where the MHRA is based. It is fairly similar to the MLA style, but with some differences. The style guide uses footnotes that fully reference a citation and has a bibliography at the end. Its major advantage is that a reader does not need to consult the bibliography to find a reference as the footnote provides all the details. The guide is available for free download [http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/StyleGuide/].
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| *[[MLA style manual|MLA style]] was developed by The [[Modern Language Association]] and is most often used in [[English studies]], [[comparative literature]], foreign-language [[literary criticism]], and some other fields in the [[humanities]]. MLA style uses a Works Cited Page to list works at the end of the paper. Brief parenthetical citations, which include an author and page (if applicable), are used within the text. These direct readers to the work of the author on the list of works cited, and the page of the work where the information is located (e.g. <tt>(Smith 107)</tt> refers the reader to page 107 of the work made by someone named Smith). More information can be found in the ''MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers''.
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| *[[Author-date system]]
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| == See also ==
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| *[[Acknowledgment (creative arts)]]
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| *[[Case citation]]
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| * [[Citation creator]]
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| *[[Citation signal]]
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| *[[Citationality]]
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| *[[Credit (creative arts)]]
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| *[[Cross-reference]]
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| *[[Scholarly method]]
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| *[[Source evaluation]]
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| == External links ==
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| ===Guidelines===
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| *[http://www.rhetoric.umn.edu/Student/Graduate/~mstewart/citations/ Citing Electronic Documentation] (APA, Chicago, MLA)
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| *[http://www.library.unt.edu/govinfo/citate/Citegen.html General Guidelines for Citing US Government Publications]
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| *[http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/journalism/cite.html Guide to Citation Style Guides]
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| *[http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html ONLINE! Citation Styles (An online guide to different citation formats)]
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| ===Style guides===
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| *[http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citama.htm AMA Citation Style]
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| *[http://www.stthomas.edu/libraries/guides/quickref/citing/ASRstyle.htm Sociology style (ASR)]
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| *[http://citationmachine.net/ Citation Machine - an interactive web tool designed to assist high school, college, and university students, their teachers, and independent researchers in their effort to respect other people's intellectual properties]
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| [[Category:Bibliography]]
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