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Citation

A citation is a reference to a source. More precisely, a citation is an abbreviated alphanumeric expression embedded in the body of an intellectual work that denotes an entry in the bibliographic references section of the work, for the purpose of acknowledging the relevance of the works of others to the topic of discussion at the spot where the citation…

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Citation

Nodes136
Edges135
Triples245
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.014706
Components1

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related to Sciences, mathematics, engineering, physiology, and medicine · 56
Citation → AB90, ACS, AIP, All, American Institute, American Mathematical Society, American Society, AMS, AMS-LaTeX, ASME, BibTeX, Biology, Biomedical Journals, Botanico-Periodicum-Huntianum, Brackets, Council, CSE, Electrical, Electronics Engineers, Eugene Garfield
related to Humanities · 37
Citation → Artifacts, British Standards Institution, Citing History Sources, CMOS, Columbia, Contingencies, Cyberspace, Elizabeth Shown Mills, English, Evidence Explained, For, Harvard, In, Includes, It, Janice, MHRA, MLA, Modern Humanities Research Association, Modern Language Association
related to Content · 16
Citation → And, Book, Brennan, Data, For, In Eugene Onegin, Interview, Journal, Newspaper, Onegin, Play, Poem, Pushkin, Tanya, URL, Web
related to Law · 15
Citation → AKA McGill Guide, American, At, Bluebook, British, Canada, Canadian Guide, Inline, Legal Authorities, McGill Law Journal, OSCOLA, Oxford Standard, The, The Bluebook, Uniform Legal Citation
related to Styles · 15
Citation → APA, Aristotle, Bekker, Bible, Chicago Manual, Individual, MLA, Others, Plato, Shakespeare, Some, Stephanus, Style, The, These
related to Unique identifiers · 15
Citation → Along, Biomedical, Citations, Contribution Identifier, DOI, Electronic, International Standard Book Number, International Standard Serial Number, ISBN, ISSN, PMID, PubMed Identifier, Serial Item, SICI, Specific
related to Social sciences · 13
Citation → American Psychological Association, American Sociological Association, APA, Association, Chicago, CMOS, Harvard, In, Publication Manual, The, The American Anthropological Association, The American Political Science, The ASA
related to Citation politics · 12
Citation → Another, As, For, Garrett-Scott, Global North, Global South, However, In, Matilda Effect, Research, Smith, The Matthew Effect
related to Citation analysis · 10
Citation → An, Derek, Documents, For, It, Networks, Scientific Papers, Solla Price, The, This
related to Further reading · 6
Citation → Citations, The, Wikimedia Commons, Wikiquote Media, Wiktionary Quotations, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2

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Important terminology

citations style also used references article may numbers research authors cited system example reference scientific publication american footnotes text page

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Citationis areference to a source0.90text
Citationis aabbreviated alphanumeric expression embedded in the body of an intellectual work that denotes an entry in the bibliographic references section of the work0.90text
Citationis areference to a book0.90text
Citationis aprimary method used when making nomenclatural citations and sometimes general citations0.90text
authorsinstance ofand publisher.Unique identifiersAlong with information0.80text
date of publicationinstance ofand publisher.Unique identifiersAlong with information0.80text
titleinstance ofand publisher.Unique identifiersAlong with information0.80text
page numbersinstance ofand publisher.Unique identifiersAlong with information0.80text
citations may also include unique identifiers depending on the type of work being referred to.Citations of books may include an International Standard Book Numberinstance ofand publisher.Unique identifiersAlong with information0.80text
authorsinstance ofUnique identifiersAlong with information0.80text
date of publicationinstance ofUnique identifiersAlong with information0.80text
titleinstance ofUnique identifiersAlong with information0.80text

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