WordNet
n. (usually preceded by `with') relation of delimitation; "he inquired with respect to the address" [syn: regard to, relation to, respect to]
Usage examples of "reference to".
What troubled her was Cody's parting remark in reference to the corbæ.
Perhaps all science had this aspect, but it was so obvious in personality theory, where new propositions were supported by reference to earlier theorists, who often supported their assertions by reference to even earlier theorists, in strings all the way back to Freud and Jung, if not Galen.
She remembered when she'd first come across a reference to the size of Kashyyyk's trees.
That could have been a reference to anything from Jimmy Carter's Iran policy to Bill Clinton's intern policy to Hee-Haw reruns.
Back in the first novel the editor cut a reference to skeletons in closets: Millie the Ghost must have a pretty one.