The phrase "without referencing anything" is grammatically correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a situation, action or statement that does not rely on or mention any external sources or influences. Example: I was able to solve the math problem without referencing anything, relying solely on my own knowledge and understanding of the subject.
In the age of the Internet, it's hard to make anything without referencing something else.
All of this could have been done without referencing the original Vanity Fair piece or attacking a journalist -- if anything, a single subtweet, before then moving on to highlight the many #SwipedRight stories, would have sufficed.
This music is happening, in every sense of the word; but it tells a story without reference to anything outside itself.
In formulating his laws, Newton asserted as postulates the notions of absolute space (in the sense of Euclidean geometry) and absolute time (a mathematical quantity that flows in the universe without reference to anything else).
But Mr. Dale's lawyer, Evan Wolfson of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, maintained that what was at issue in Mr. Dale's case was "identity-based discrimination, the equation of a human being with an assumed message," without reference to anything Mr. Dale had said or done.
In Newton's words (Principia, 408 409): "Absolute space, of its own nature without reference to anything external, always remains homogeneous and immovable.
His approach was to use an analogy with a ship: he urges us to consider the behaviour of objects, both animate and inanimate, inside the cabin of a ship, and claims that no experiments carried out inside the cabin, without reference to anything outside the ship, would enable us to tell whether the ship is at rest or moving smoothly across the surface of the Earth.
Cardinal Dolan pointed out that the US Supreme Court recently upheld the Lutheran Church's right to fire its ministers without reference to anything other than its own teachings.
Perhaps most appealing to our intuitions is the notion held by Newton stating that time exists: time is "absolute, true, and mathematical, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name is called duration". 1 This view states that time flows in a predictable manner, as we believe we perceive it.
If we wanted to reference anything, we would reference it on YouTube".
