Use in scientific publications of citations from published works, the rights to which belong to other authors

This paper deals with a number of issues associated with rules of citation of the published works of other authors: the general notion of the citation, its types, the legislative base on copyright issues, related to the citation are presented. The basic rules for making citations, types of offenses that violate legislation regarding requirements for making quotations, plagiarism and selfcitations are defined. Also, the procedure for judicial protection of copyright in case of unlawful citation and plagiarism is considered.