"refer to how" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use this phrase when you want to point out or explain something. For example: "Later in the essay, I will refer to how economic policy affects global warming."
The best of these poems, Adam decides, "describe what it's like to read an Ashbery poem; his poems refer to how their reference evanesces.
The numbers refer to how many minutes a story will take to read.
It doesn't refer to how that constitutional amendment ought to be defined.
The works refer to how there were these viewing holes in church walls for "undesirables" to listen in on sermons.
Sustainable, for example, could mean that a product was durable as well as refer to how it was made.
On the other hand, previous research suggested that cognitive styles significantly affect student learning because they refer to how learners process and organize information.
You find out he's been with all of them" In casual conversations about dating apps, I have often heard friends refer to how men are or women are.
"You refer to how other countries have secured access but I don't think … it has to work like that for the UK," he said.
Reformers like Cerf, Klein, Weisberg, and even Secretary Duncan often use the term "value-added scores" to refer to how they would quantify the teacher evaluation process.
I refer to how, "under a law passed by the occupying authorities in June, a news media organization must be licensed".
Anyone unwilling to spend the money can refer to how the Badgers throttled Kansas State, 72-55, on Saturday in the second round of the N.C.A.A. tournament.
