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Inclusive Citation Practice

Citational Practices

"Citation is not only a way we build ethos and credibility for making arguments, but, perhaps more importantly, a decision to amplify some voices over others, and an argument about whose voices and perspectives are valid, credible, and worth drawing from as we build knowledge in the discipline. Citation practices affect our material realities, how people are sustained and promoted, what knowledge is honored in the discipline, and who we see as knowledge producers...Citation is about giving credit to those whose thinking has informed and preceded our own. It is also how disciplines determine epistemological legitimacy."

Sano-Franchini, J., Carter-Tod, S., Gruwell, L., Ihara, R., Hidalgo, A., & Ostergaard, L. (2022, November). Position statement on citation justice in rhetoric, composition, and writing studies. Conference on College Composition and Communication. https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/citation-justice

Inclusive Citation: Why do we only cite white guys? [Workshop recording]

Inclusive Citation Practice

The practice of including research and scholarship produced by researchers, scholars, artists, and communities that have been historically, and continue to be, marginalized in scholarly discourse.

Reading List:

Ahmed, S. (2013, September 11). Making feminist points. feministkilljoys. https://feministkilljoys.com/2013/09/11/making-feminist-points/

Chick, N. L., Abbot, S., Mercer-Mapstone, L., Ostrowdun, C. P., & Grensavitch, K. (2021). Naming is power: Citation practices in SoTL. Teaching & Learning Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.20343/teachlearninqu.9.2.2

Citational Justice Collective. (2022). Citaiton justice and the politics of knowledge production. Interactions, 29(5), 78-82. Association of Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3556549

Goodman, J. E., Tomlinson, M., & Richland, J. B. (2014). Citational practices: Knowledge, personhood, and subjectivity. Annual Review of Anthropology, 43, 449-463. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102313-025828

Guzmán, R. L. & Amrute, S. (2019, August 22). How to cite like a badass tech feminist scholar of color. Medium. https://medium.com/datasociety-points/how-to-cite-like-a-badass-tech-feminist-scholar-of-color-ebc839a3619c

Itchuaqiyaq, C. U., Litts, B., Suarez, M. I., Taylor, C., & Glass, C. M. (2020). Citation as a critical practice. Intersections on Inclusion: Critical Conversations about the Academy. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/inter_inclusion/1

Mott, C., & Cockayne, D. (2017). Citation matters: Mobilizing the politics of citation toward a practice of “conscientious engagement.” Gender, Place and Culture : A Journal of Feminist Geography, 24(7), 954–973. https://csu-sb.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CALS_USB/1nhgh2e/cdi_proquest_journals_1957206351
 
Ogan, A., van Amstel, F., León, G. M., Maestre, J. F., Williams, K., Bidwell, N. J., Reynolds-Cuéllar, P., Savage, S., Oswal, S., & Sharma, V. (2023). Why do we need to learn about citational practices? Recognizing knowledge production from the global souths and beyond. Crossroads, 29(3), 12–17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3589256
 

Teixeira da Silva, J.A. (2021). The Matthew effect impacts science and academic publishing by preferentially amplifying citations, metrics and status. Scientometrics, 126, 5373–5377. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-021-03967-2