"refer to work" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to direct someone to a piece of work they should consider or review. For example, you could say "Please refer to work done in the past to get an idea of the best approach."
What he and others mean when they refer to work as "principled" or "beautiful" is that the images on screen are not the result of a patchwork of technical tricks, but of precise mathematical equations based on the way the world actually looks and operates — in a word, physics.
For a recent contrasting, yet embodied, account of agency and its related disorders refer to work in phenomenological psychiatry (Fuchs 2011, 2010, 2009, 2005; Sass and Parnas 2001; Stanghellini 2004).
However, the term "sociobiology", especially used of the work that Wilson described in most of his book, was a neologism, and Wilson used it to refer to work by scientists who did not use that term to refer to themselves.
Public private partnerships (PPPs) broadly refer to work relations between the government and the private sector in the design and delivery of service which were previously a sole government responsibility.
For the reader interested in the existence theory of such problem we refer to work presented by Ruyun Ma [9] in which the author presents a detailed survey on the topic.
Moghbel et al. refer to work in malignant lung lesions where the intensity differences are indeed huge and "overwhelming" [ 14].
When I talk to educators, I often refer to working memory like a Post-it note.
(Outsourcing refers to work contracted to an outside firm; offshoring is the shift of work abroad).
"Street art" refers to work by visual artists that is created on city streets—oftentimes without permission.
It refers to work done with the TIGRIS XL model to improve the calculation of the direct benefits by applying the so-called 'logsum' method.
▸ Referred to work performed by non-governmental agencies.
