cite

verb

• 1quote (a passage, book, or author) as evidence for or justification of an argument or statement, especially in a scholarly work.
• mention as an example:medics have been cited as a key example of a modern breed of technical expert
• praise (someone, typically a member of the armed forces) for a courageous act in an official dispatch.
• Law adduce a former tried case as a guide to deciding a comparable case or in support of an argument.

• 2 Law summon (someone) to appear in a court of law:the summons cited four of the defendants

noun

• a citation.