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Are &quot;cite as&quot; sections obligatory?
<p>This may sound trivial at first, but if I want to cite something online or want to reference it in any other way, I sometimes find that the authors leave a "cite as" part under the content which may or may not have a certain order of fields such as "author", "title", "date" or a certain typesetting.</p>

<p>My question is whether I have to reproduce these patterns or whether it is enough to give the fields for example in the order "author", "date", "title".</p>

<p>There is no legal obligation to do this. In general, the author is providing the relevant info in one place; order and formatting depend on the style you are using.</p>

<p>There are a large number of completely different referencing systems used in academia. For example, business schools typically use the Harvard style while medical schools use the APA style.</p>

<p>You might want to post this on academia.se</p>
