In taxonomy, an author citation refers to the person or group of people who validly published a taxon. The rules and formats of author citations vary in each discipline:
- Author citation (botany)
- Author citation (zoology)
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“There exist few things more tedious than a discussion of general ideas inflicted by author or reader upon a work of fiction.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)