Citation

public final classCitation


Represents a citation of content from an external source within the model's output.

When the language model generates text that includes content from another source, it should provide a citation to properly attribute the original source. This class encapsulates the metadata associated with that citation.

Summary

Public fields

final int

The (exclusive) ending index within the model output where the cited content ends.

finalString

The license under which the cited content is distributed under, if available.

finalCalendar

The date of publication of the cited source, if available.

final int

The (inclusive) starting index within the model output where the cited content begins.

finalString

The title of the cited source, if available.

finalString

The URI of the cited source, if available.

Public fields

endIndex

public final int endIndex

The (exclusive) ending index within the model output where the cited content ends.

license

public final String license

The license under which the cited content is distributed under, if available.

publicationDate

public final Calendar publicationDate

The date of publication of the cited source, if available.

startIndex

public final int startIndex

The (inclusive) starting index within the model output where the cited content begins.

title

public final String title

The title of the cited source, if available.

uri

public final String uri

The URI of the cited source, if available.

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Last updated 2025-07-21 UTC.