viittauksessa

Viittauksessa is a Finnish noun form meaning “in the reference” or “in the citation.” It is the inessive singular form of the noun viittaus, which refers to a reference or a citation. The inessive case answers “where?” and is used to indicate location inside a text, document, or bibliographic entry.

In practice, viittauksessa is used primarily in academic or formal writing, in discussions of sources and citations. It can refer to the part of a text where a source is cited, or to content that is described within the reference section. For example, the phrase “Viittauksessa mainittu tutkimus osoittaa …” translates to “The study mentioned in the reference shows …”

Relation to related forms: the root viittaus can combine with various cases to express different relations, while viite (reference) has its own set of forms such as viitteessä. Viittaus emphasizes the act of citing or the cited source, whereas viite emphasizes the bibliographic entry itself. Therefore viittauksessa is a distinct form used specifically to indicate something located “in the reference” or within the cited content.

Overall, viittauksessa is a technical grammatical form used in Finnish to specify the location of cited information within a reference or citation, most commonly in scholarly writing.