referencing

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of reference

plural referencings

1. The making of a reference.

   And what conversation becomes then is a sustained strip or tract of referencings, each referencing tending to bear, but often deviously, some retrospectively perceivable connection to the immediately preceding one.

   1999, James R. Taylor, Elizabeth J. Van Every, The Emergent Organization: Communication As Its Site and Surface, page 36