The phrase "authority reference" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a source or citation that holds authority on a particular subject.
Example: "In her research paper, she included an authority reference to support her claims about climate change."
Alternatives: "authoritative source" or "trusted citation".
The right question is: why does a public figure of authority and reference – a professor and the organiser of an event for dozens of young scientists – feel like he can make overt advances towards the participants?
Cruz, who claims he is the last candidate who can stop Donald Trump becoming the Republican nominee, urged Congress to exercise its "constitutional authority", a reference to Article 1, Section 8's empowerment of Congress to "make rules concerning captures on land and water".
Hume's own solution was, like Bentham later, to propose to justify political authority with reference to its beneficial consequences.
(PMN 171) Rorty provides this view with a label: "Explaining rationality and epistemic authority by reference to what society lets us say, rather than the latter by the former, is the essence of what I shall call 'epistemological behaviorism,' an attitude common to Dewey and Wittgenstein".
There are training courses, a series of checks, including by the police and local authority, and references are taken from friends and family about suitability.
The Eurogroup finance ministers, in their statement Wednesday on Greece, said any decision to release the next round of money "was subject to the completion of prior actions by the Greek authorities" — a reference to commitments already made by Greece to overhaul labor laws and raise the retirement age.
Primary hepatocytes were isolated from human liver tissue obtained from liver resection specimens immediately after surgery, with full informed consent and ethical approval from the relevant authorities (National Research Ethics Service reference: 11/NW/0327).
Traditional authority and key reference points have faced seismic crisis.
On Tuesday, Colonel Pohl read a government statement that said an "original classification authority" — apparently a reference to the C.I.A. — was also monitoring for disclosures of classified information.
Your opinion of the movies will carry more weight if it can tackle this question with some authority, ideally with reference to specific issues and series.
