How to Cite

Give the author, work, and edition you have read. A link to a passage in this library helps the next reader find it; the printed source remains the authority for the quotation.

Copy a passage with its citation

Use Copy with citation in the reader or a search result. The copied reference includes the recorded author and title, the edition date where known, and a link to the passage. Check the edition details before using it in published work.

Find the printed page

Use View source page when the edition has a verified link to the corresponding scan. Otherwise, View source volume opens the scan so that you can locate the leaf yourself. A catalogue passage number or a page of website results is not a printed page number.

Where pagination has been mapped, cite the printed page or column shown on the original. Where it has not, add the passage link as a finding aid and verify the page in the scan. The library does not invent pagination.

Keep the edition in view

Structured editions show their source, review status, version, and available correction history. A machine transcription awaiting review needs checking against the scan. A reviewed edition states what has been reviewed.

Passage links carry a text check when available. If a rebuilt corpus no longer contains the same passage at that address, the library asks you to locate it again rather than silently substituting a different quotation. Save the text, source reference, and edition version along with the link.

Save your references

Your Commonplace Book keeps passages, source references, and your own notes together. Export them when preparing a sermon, paper, or reading list. Notes belong to their reader and are separate from the source text.

Report a problem

Use Report a problem from the reader to flag a transcription, attribution, or source-link issue. A report requests review; it does not change the edition. Check quotations against their scans before publication.