academic citations
Scholarly source acknowledgments
Academic citations are references to sources used in scholarly writing—books, journal articles, studies, or other works that support claims or provide context.
Citations allow readers to locate original sources and verify information.
Different fields use different citation styles: APA in social sciences, MLA in humanities, Chicago in history.
The paper included citations from twelve peer-reviewed journals.
Proper citation also protects against plagiarism by crediting others' ideas.
- attributionAssigning origin or cause
- APAPsychology organization's format
- ChicagoMajor Illinois metropolis
- AMAAcronym for openness
- reproducibilityAbility to repeat findings
verification · paper trail · DOI · credibility · bibliography · transparency · MLA · Harvard · peer review · publish · references · sources · Google Scholar · abstracts · journals · et al. · tenure · IEEE
academic citationsanecdotal evidence
Support from individual accounts
hearsay · speculation · conjecture · intuition · common knowledge