Understanding Citations

Citation is an abbreviated representation of a source; contains enough information for someone to obtain an copy of the source, such as author(s), title, source, publisher, publication year and page numbers, etc.

Example 1:

Evaluating Individual Market Power in Electricity Markets via Agent-Based Simulation
Bunn D.W.; Oliveira F.S.
Annals of Operations Research, July 2003, vol. 121, no. 1-4, pp. 57-77(21)
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, U.S.A

Example 2: A citation with an abstract

Field is the basic building block of a database. Databases are made up of units of information called "records" each record is further divided into "fields" and each field contains a specific
kind of information; for examples: Title, Author, Publisher fields.
Abstract is a non-evaluative summary of a work

Example 3: An electronic record


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