The phrase "avoid citations" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when instructing someone to refrain from including references or sources in their writing.
Example: "In this essay, please avoid citations to maintain a more personal narrative style."
Alternatives: "omit references" or "skip citations".
Asked about the safety, community and union complaints, Mr. Chang played down the criticism, and said it was difficult to avoid citations while building in New York, particularly given the current crackdown on safety.
Audits and investigations have uncovered cases in which oil company executives used bribes, favors and threats to avoid citations for noncompliance, which can lead to heavy fines or other penalties.
In MacArthur Park, food trucks could get slapped with citations for illegal vending on the sidewalk, but are able to drive into the park and avoid citations, said LAPD senior lead officer Iris Santin.
Although not yet an object of analysis, it is noticeable that many Brazilian authors envisaging publications in mainstream journals tend to produce reference lists containing a majority of prominent authors and prestigious journals and avoid citations of their compatriots, as if this would give more weight to their publications [14], [15].
For example, the persistent identifier (DOI) of just the highest collection level of datasets associated with an article can be therein cited, avoiding citation blight.
Writers should merely state their premises and provide relevant citations and avoid mention of authors' names or description of cited works; this places emphasis on ideas rather than on investigators and studies.
Tenant advocates countered that a lasting guarantee of affordable housing was an important tradeoff for allowing landlords to avoid city citations and legally rent out more apartments.
In future studies, it might be important to control for the number of authors to avoid inflated citation counts and more precise estimates of performance and impact.
To avoid future traffic citations, make sure that your car tail lights are always in prime condition.
Not to be outdone by Miss Paraguay's barely-there costume, or the small replicas of butterflies artfully arranged in Miss Tahiti's hair, Anna Melissa Prime wore giant butterflies in her headdress, and smaller ones that looked they had just conveniently landed on her body to help her avoid receiving a citation for indecent exposure.
The pseudo counts smooth behavior when the profile has few citations and avoid division by zero if a specific term does not occur in the citations selected by a user.
