"put a reference" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are asking someone to include a reference from another source to add credibility to a statement they are making, or when you are asking someone to include a citation in a piece of writing. For example, "Be sure to put a reference in your paper to cite your source."
Sometimes if you're writing a pseudonymous letter you'll put a reference saying, well now some people have been circulating pseudonymous letters by me and I condemn them for it.
The bill reinforces the primacy of the Commons by accepting proposals from Lord Goldsmith and Lord Pannick to put a reference to the Parliament Act on the face of the bill, coupled with legal advice that asserts a statutory Parliament Act does not make the relationship between the two houses subject to judicial interference.
There's no need to put a reference to the margin of appreciation [into the convention preamble]." The human rights organisation Liberty welcomed the fact that the declaration "will omit various drastic proposals which would have undermined the right of individual petition, such as amending the convention to narrow the court of human rights' admissibility (HRA) criteria".
In contrast to Mavrommatis et al. (2014), we put a reference station in an inland area and focused on the relative crustal deformation.
As requested we have put a reference to the corresponding figure legend.
In our methods, to solve this technical problem, we decided to put a reference control, an exogenous spike-in with VIC probe, which allows an accurate miRNA copy number quantification and also to have control of the whole process.
No. I've filed it away in a specimen drawer and put a little reference to it in my book, as part of a larger camouflage palette.
Woody Allen put a wry reference to the events in his 1973 movie "Sleeper," when his character awakens far in the future and is told his era vanished in a war.
Might be an idea if I put a short cross reference at the end of my last page - to include your part of the story.
In late August I returned to Princeton, where George was striding around a seminar room at the Princeton Theological Seminary — "John Paul II style," as he put it, a reference to the pontiff's habit of strolling as he spoke.
He was referring to a kerfuffle the Democrats had at their convention last week in Charlotte, N.C., when they had to scramble to put back a reference to "God" in their party platform.
