Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Citation/Texts

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Preliminary note: This Help article is only about the specific citation rules for text resources such as physical/ printed publications and documents published in electronic formats (i.e. downloadable digital formats such as pdf files or e-books). For general information on the citation requirements please refer to the parent Help article Citation. For the citation process for texts found in other sources refer to the citation Help articles for the corresponding source types

• Citation rules for images
• Citation rules for online resources (e.g. websites, social media)
• Citation rules for audio sources (e.g. audiobooks)
• Citation rules for video sources (e.g. videos from official channels NOT videos from videogames)‎
• Citation rules for videogame sources
• Citation rules for Collectible/ Trading card games (CCG/TCG)

General requirements

• In general sources must contain the exact title of the publication as it appears in its own article in the Lexicanum. Pay attention to not link to redirects but to the correct target article about the publication).
• Do note that the names of the author(s) are never included in the citations - this information is in the article about the source itself. The same applies to ISBN numbers and similar information.
• The exact location of the information within the source must be given. This means:
  • for all publications the exact title of the corresponding chapter or applicable sub-division of the text must be given (including eventual numbering exactly as it appears). These titles should retain the format as given in the original source, e.g. do not write "Chapter 9" if in the book it is written as "Chapter IX" or just "IX" etc. If broader divisions than chapters are used (e.g. the publication is also divided into different parts like Part 1, Part 2 etc.) also give that information exactly as it appears in the book.
  • for print publications page number(s) are obligatory. Where no official page numbers are available, use the correct description such as "front cover", "back cover", "inside front cover", "inside back cover" etc. If the publication's pages are not numbered at all you will have to count them yourself - starting at "1" with the first paper page after the cover page (and its eventual inside cover page). If only some page numbers are given you will have to count yourself, too - starting at the last given page number. Add the character "~" before any self-counted page numbers to indicate the nature of said page numbers. Do note that sometimes there are re-issues of publications that can lead to changes in the page numbering. Some publications also exist in different formats such as hardback, softback/paperback or limited edition runs. So if you are using a specific print run or edition please indicate this. Additonal useful information could for example look like this: "printed in the US 2010" or "2011 Special Collector's edition" etc. Also do note that when specific information (e.g. image material) is only included in specific editions of a publication this must obviously be listed in the source section.
  • for e-book and other downloadable formats such as pdf files page numbers are often not "fixed", therefore in this case the exact titles of the chapter or applicable sub-division of the text becomes even more important.
    • Special case 1: Some e-publications use the exact same chapter or division titles again and again throughout the text (e.g. to jump between locations or characters. In this case giving only the division title is not sufficient to pinpoint the location of the cited information. Therefore you have to additionally cite the whole first sentence of the first paragraph.
    • Special case 2: Some e-publications don't include any titled sub-divisions (e.g. short stories). Therefore you have to state in which third of the text (i.e. first third, middle third, last third) the corresponding text passage is to be found and you will have to additionally cite the whole first sentence of the relevant passage.
• If an information "stretches" for example over several pages (or in extreme cases even chapters in for example a novel) the range of pages must be given in the citation. An example for this would be events that stretch over a period of time and can not be pinpointed to an exact paragraph or sentence in a source. Note however that on no account this practice is allowed to be abused to avoid the need for citations for details that can be pinpointed to an exact part of the source. As a general rule a source can not stretch over more than a single chapter or a maximum of ten continuous pages.
• Short stories are to be referenced with their full title (as used in the corresponding Lexicanum article) and the anthology in which it was published (if applicable).
• For flyers, event-only publications, limited edition publications and products, loose advertisements, information taken from original packaging, references in non-Games Workshop (and subsidiaries' and license holders') magazines and generally all non-readily available text sources it is also compulsory to upload an image of the specific source used. All screenshots should be collected on a subpage of the corresponding parent article named "Sources" and be numbered exactly as they appear in the sources list of the parent article. The subpage must be named according to the following naming pattern: "...Parentpage/Sources".

Abbreviations to use in the Sources section

• pg. for single pages - example for formatting: Name of the source, pg. 5
• pgs. for multiple pages - example for formatting: Name of the source, pgs. 3-7

Position of page number(s) in the Sources section

The pagenumber(s) should be put at the end of a source. Exceptions should only be made when additional information concerning the source is necessary, e.g. about specific editions/ print runs etc.

Examples of good sourcing

• to be found