The phrase "a variety of reference" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different types or sources of information or citations in a particular context.
Example: "In this research paper, we will analyze a variety of reference materials to support our findings."
Alternatives: "a range of sources" or "multiple references".
A variety of reference sources are used to check a celebrant's details.
Unafraid to veer from personal honesty to larger patterns of meaning, willing to employ a variety of reference systems (literary, judicial, topical and spiritual) or to circle a subject for as long as it takes, he gives us essays that are invariably ambitious and thought-provoking, if not always fully baked.
Books in the ebrary collection can interact intelligently with a variety of reference sources.
The utility of the proposed scheme is aptly demonstrated by implementing it to control the level in a surge tank under a variety of reference input commands, where the fuzzy controller could significantly out-perform the corresponding classical feedback linearizing controller and PSO-based fuzzy controller.
The featured formula, consisting of an inertial-contrast monopole term and an elasticity-contrast dipole term, is shown to be applicable to a variety of reference solids (semi-infinite and infinite domains with constant or functionally graded elastic properties) for which the Green's functions are available.
The technology, politics, economics, culture, and military tactics were based on a variety of reference books and consultations with expert sources.
Dictionary.com draws on a variety of references, like the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language and the Census Bureau's U.S. Gazetteer.
Those relief-panels include a variety of references to the printing trades, and they are the sort of thing that early-20th-century buildings sometimes had, and more modern structures very seldom do.
A variety of references have been applied to describe the ship model, its difficulties, limitations, and possible simplifications for the purpose of automatic control design.
The external standard was usually quoted as the National Centre for Health Statistics (NCHS) standard, but a variety of references were quoted (including anthropometric computer packages or country standards).
