This chapter argues that the concept of citation is a foundational mechanism for building knowledge and fostering intellectual exchange and therefore is likewise an important mechanism for sustaining diversity in scholarship. When placed in the context of academic integrity, however, citation can too often be co-opted strictly to integrity’s purpose and away from these social functions it otherwise supports. The consequence for citation is that students hear the imperative to cite not as a way to organise knowledge relationally, or to advance knowledge as socially contingent, but as a means to guard against charges of misconduct. This prophylactic conception of citation—to avoid plagiarism—is counter to inclusion because it is founded on a sense of ‘keeping out’ rather than ‘welcoming in’. As a corrective to this, to re-introduce relationality to citation, I propose removing citation’s too-close connection to academic integrity and, instead, to take insights from another domain regarding speech attribution: Reported Speech (RS). We find in RS resources students already have for representing others’ speech and, while of course academic communities have particular forms that must be acquired, I propose that connecting authentic, already-known practice with new modes of representation both better motivates a positive vision of integrity and grounds citation in a more linguistically authentic, relational manner.