A citation is a credit or reference to another document or source.
Citation may also refer to:
Government, law, and military
- Citation (police), a type of summons compelling the appearance of a defendant before the local magistrate
- Traffic citation, a notice issued to a motorist accusing violation of traffic laws
- Case citation, the system used in common law countries to uniquely identify the location of past court cases
- Legal citation, the style of crediting and referencing other documents or sources of authority in legal writing
- Unit citation, a formal, honorary mention of a military unit's outstanding performance
- Law of Citations, a Roman law issued from Ravenna in AD 426
- Citation Star, a US Department of War personal valor decoration
Transportation
Other uses
See also
Topics referred to by the same term