Relating to or involving citation or the act of citing.
Derived from cite with the adjective suffix -al. Used in academic and legal contexts to describe the practice and rules of referencing sources.
Teachers obsess over 'cital format' because proper citation is how scholars prove they're not making stuff up and honestly credit the smart people who came before them—it's basically academic honesty in action.
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