How to Cite
Cite the book, not this library. What is quoted here is a public-domain work that existed long before this catalogue, and a reader who follows your reference should be sent to the volume itself. This site is the finding aid, and belongs in the note only so that others may find the passage the same way.
The form
Give the work as you would give any printed book, then the passage:
Vernon Staley, The Catholic Religion (London: A. R. Mowbray, 1917), passage 2945219, The Anglican Library, anglicanlibrary.com/library/557.
Every result carries the pieces you need. Author, title, publisher and year are the volume's own; the rest identify the passage:
| Field | What it is |
|---|---|
passage_id |
A stable number for the passage. It does not change when the text is re-indexed, so it may be cited. |
book_id |
The volume in this catalogue — /library/<book_id>. |
edition_group_id |
Groups the volumes of one work, so that a multi-volume set counts once. Not usually cited. |
| the scan | Each volume links to the copy it was taken from, at the Internet Archive or Google Books. Cite that where the page number matters. |
Page numbers
There are none here, and none are invented. The texts are scanned and the pagination of the printed leaf is not carried through the transcription, so a passage is located by its number rather than by its page. Where a page reference is wanted — and for anything published, it usually is — follow the link to the scan and take the number from the leaf itself.
On quoting accurately
The text is machine-read from old print. Expect the long ƒ for “s”, hyphenation broken across lines, and the occasional garbled word or Greek phrase. Check any quotation against the scan before you publish it. The passage number and the link exist so that you can.
Nothing here is an edition. No spelling has been modernised, no punctuation corrected, and no opinion softened; where the reading is wrong it is the scanner's error, not the author's, and the facsimile settles it.
