What is a Citation Reference?

A citation reference is the symbolic annotation that ascribes a citation as being a part of a particular passage or expression in a specific document. This means you have to define the document as one part of the citation reference and then define the portion within the document wherein the citation exists as the other.

Figure 1: Excerpt from “Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016”.

A citation reference is the symbolic annotation that ascribes a citation as being a part of a particular passage or expression in a specific document. This means you have to define the document as one part of the citation reference and then define the portion within the document wherein the citation exists as the other.

For example, in Figure 1, the citations all come from the document “Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016”. So, the first citation reference would be described below:

§ 1. Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016

And the second citation reference would be described below:

§ 1. (a), Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016