The Citation element specifies a citation and is typically rendered in an italic font.

This sentence, contains a <CITE>citation reference</CITE>

would look like:

This sentence, contains a citation reference

<CITE> can also take the CLASS, ID and STYLE attributes to allow style sheet definitions to be applied to it. For more details of these attributes, see the Style Sheets topic.

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