The phrase "avoid citing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when advising someone not to reference or mention a source in their writing or discussion.
Example: "In this essay, I would recommend that you avoid citing any controversial sources to maintain objectivity."
Alternatives: "refrain from referencing" or "steer clear of citing".
Dr. Ahlburg advises older job seekers to avoid citing financial troubles as a reason for returning to work.
A second source, who is sympathetic to White House policy, said caveats administration officials attached to the 1,429 death total were of sufficient magnitude to cause the source to avoid citing the figure.
Please avoid citing the same reference twice, e.g., Reference no.16 = no.
To avoid citing twice in a sentence, put the author's name (or authors' names) in the sentence itself.
The film's Web site encourages viewers to follow up with local activism (and also links to research and studies supporting the film, which pretty much avoids citing any data).
She also suggested that it was the job of deficit countries — like the United States and Britain, though she diplomatically avoided citing them — to increase their competitiveness rather than put limits on countries that had figured out how to get the world to buy their goods.
Partly because using such easy interviewees makes him look lazy, even if he isn't; and partly because taxi drivers are always and everywhere congenitally grumpy.I remember the sad Gibraltarian whom I decided would be my last, and since moving to Moscow I have until now avoided citing in my copy its drivers' reflections on Vladimir Putin, Stalin and the disadvantages of wearing seatbelts.
But the president until now had avoided citing that until analysts were further along in their assessment of the group's activities and its ties to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian charged with trying to blow up the airliner.
"When you put fresh fish in an airplane," Mr. Leonard said, "all bets are off," The Monterey Bay Aquarium includes all farmed fish on its "red list" of fish to be avoided, citing concerns like the discharge of waste and parasites from farms.
On the stump, Mr. Kerry's jobs-health care-education message avoids citing minorities specifically except for a line about having fought alongside men of all races, regions and religions in Vietnam and seen "whites only" signs on drinking fountains in the South in 1963.
BP should have avoided citing a specific number and simply admitted that the disaster was very big.
