Citation

Draft

Definition

A citation or bibliographic citation is a reference to a book, article, web page, or other published item with sufficient details to uniquely identify the item. Unpublished writings or speech, such as personal communications, are also sometimes cited. Citations are provided in scholarly works, bibliographies and indexes

Bibliographic management and citation formatting are central to this.

See the Wikiepedia Citation article.

Tools and standards

Citation indexes

A citation index is an index of citations between publications, allowing the user to easily establish which documents cite which other documents.

See the Citation index article for detail

• CiteSeer is the most popular index open to everyone.
  • SiteSeer home page
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CiteSeer

Standards

Reference standards

There are many style conventions. In educational technology, the most popular one is probably APA.

• APA
• Chicago
• Harward

Data formats

• Bibtex
• Marc
• Citation Style Language (CSL)

Stable Internet addresses

• DOI is the most popular one, see crossref.org
• There are others

Reference/Bibliography managers

A reference manager is a tool to manage references.

Other tools

• WebCite is an archiving system for webreferences (cited webpages and websites), which can be used by authors, editors, and publishers of scholarly papers and books, to ensure that cited webmaterial will remain available to readers in the future.

Links

General

• Bibliographic Styles from OpenOffice.org

APA

• APA Style.org APA Style.org
• Purdue APA guide
• APA citations / UCSC
• Wikipedia APA Style
• How to Start Using the APA Style Guide (short check list from UCSC)
• How to cite electronic references (from APA)
• APA style Curtin Univ.