Citation in RAG is the reference that ties each claim in an LLM's answer back to a retrieved document — a number at the end of a sentence, an inline link, or a hover card. Perplexity and Anthropic's 2024 "Citations" API popularized the pattern: the model returns not just an answer but a structured map of which passage produced which span. It's critical for user verification, Hallucination detection, and as evidence of Grounding. In regulated domains — healthcare, finance, law — citations are now table stakes for any RAG system to reach production.
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Glossary · Beginner · 2023
Citation in RAG
A reference that ties information in an LLM's answer back to its source document.
- EN — English term
- Citation (in RAG)
- TR — Turkish term
- Kaynak Gösterme (RAG'da)