Is there a short form for the word - Citation? I Googled but still can't find one.
EDIT: 'Citation' is not a long word but if my document will mention this word at least 100, it would therefore be great if I can find the short form for it.
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Sign up to join this communityIs there a short form for the word - Citation? I Googled but still can't find one.
EDIT: 'Citation' is not a long word but if my document will mention this word at least 100, it would therefore be great if I can find the short form for it.
There is the abbreviation cit, but it is only used in particular contexts; you would not use it in running text, though you would use it in a reference.
There are some near-synonyms. I'm guessing you mean the sense in which quotation, quote, extract, excerpt, passage, line, reference, or piece could work, though if you mean it in another sense, then commendation or order or various other terms could be used. You may find that some of these near-synonyms can be used some of the time.
For the most part though I wouldn't worry about it. If your document is using citation at least 100 times, it's presumably a document in which it is appropriate to use citation at least 100 times. What's the problem?
We sometimes say 'I cited that author' but there's no official abbreviated form of citation that I know of.