Op. Cit.
A citation shorthand meaning 'in the work already cited'.
Op. cit. abbreviates opere citato, Latin for 'in the work cited'. It is used in footnote-and-endnote systems to refer back to a source named earlier in the same text, when other citations intervene between the first reference and this one.
Op. cit. has fallen out of favour in most modern academic writing because the reader has to scan backwards to find the original full citation. Author-date systems (APA, Harvard) have made it largely obsolete.
Where it survives, op. cit. usually follows the author's surname: 'Aurelius, op. cit., p. 47.'
“Smith, op. cit., p. 112.”
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A citation shorthand meaning 'in the same source as the previous note'.
Latin for 'and others' — used in citations of multi-author works.
A formal reference that lets a reader locate the source of a quote.
The act of naming the original speaker or writer of a quote.