Open English Wordnet
Nouns
(n)citation, commendationan official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement
(n)citation, cite, acknowledgment, credit, reference, mention, quotationa short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage“the student's essay failed to list several important citations”, “the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book”, “the article includes mention of similar clinical cases”