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Bibliography; Reference
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A citation is a reference from one article to another article. A citation is a record that consists of the names of the authors, the title of the referred article, the time and place of publication, as well as various other fields. The fields in the citation should collectively specify unambiguously where the full text of the referred article could be obtained. Typically, all citations are presented at the end of the referring article. However, articles in certain domains list the citations as footnotes in the pages where the reference occurs. Citations can range from references to be to single articles or to entire books.
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Often, authors have to refer to knowledge that is derived from another work. For example, when quoting text from another article or book, the author must specify from which article or book the quotation is obtained. Authors need to refer to other works in order to point out preliminary information on the...
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Mitra, P. (2018). Citation. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_50
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