The phrase "a central point of reference" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a key element or focal point that serves as a basis for understanding or comparison in a particular context.
Example: "In our research, we established a central point of reference to guide our analysis of the data collected."
Alternatives: "a key reference point" or "a main point of reference."
THE Berlin wall is a central point of reference in the novel.
Yet little of this ideological fertility is now in evidence, and French thinking is no longer a central point of reference for progressives across the world.
The scholar and activist W. E. B. Du Bois, who, in the course of his ninety-five years, had been, successively, a bourgeois reformist, an apostle of black nationalism, a socialist democrat, and, ultimately, a radical communist, became a central point of reference for Baraka.
Whether in the title of the Paris by Night videos watched by the young Cherry and her cousins in California, or in the letters of Grandfather Truongwritten from Paris but still filled with longing for the city of which he dreamt as a student in colonial VietnamParis emerges in Phans novel as a central point of reference for the articulation of Vietnamese diasporic identity.
Under law, the NOP is required to maintain a list of all USDA-certified organic operations as a central point of reference, where organic certification agents, food businesses or members of the public can access information about farms and food businesses that claim to be certified organic.
The early texts function as a central point of reference of what the Buddha actually taught, but the later texts can give personal experiences of other practitioners in their interpretation of the early texts, that can be very inspiring.
Daniels sees his old friend as the beau ideal of criticism, and he has used him as the central point of reference in a vast and erudite meditation on the nature of criticism, analysing him as a writer, a reviewer and a man, seeking to understand the nature of his achievement by appealing to authorities and examples from 2,000 years of literature, philosophy and psychology.
Unfortunately, there are going to be people who use the system, and without some kind of central point of reference you have no way to defend against abuse".
Duneier's book makes it easy to see how, through all these changes, black ghettos in America have remained the central point of reference for anyone who wants to understand poverty and segregation.
Yet Morrill's tribute in 1989 - "If we can be sure that the 17th century changed England and Englishmen more than any other century bar the present one, we owe that recognition to him more than to any other scholar" - shows how, even in relative eclipse, Hill remained the central point of reference in 17th-century studies.
Facebook's main purpose may be about setting out guidelines for minors all in one place (up to now, Facebook has offered some advice throughout different areas of its support and help pages, with no single, central point of reference).
