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The "in-wiki" citation method

We use a special, wiki-modification of the "in-text" system of citations,
or what I am calling an "in-wiki" method of citation.

For secondary sources, this will look like an author-title-date system. For primary
sources, this will look a bit like the standard abbreviation system specified in the SBL
Handbook of Style.

Example 1: a quotation, followed by an "in-wiki" citation:

The proper "in-wiki" citation format includes a link to the annotated
bibliography page, followed either by a page number (if applicable) or a link to the source
text itself (if possible).

Note that the peculiar format of the author-title-date system
that is been employed:

According to Shaye J. D. Cohen, "[m]any scholars have
discussed judaizing in early Chrsitianity as if the concept were clearly defined, but
it is not" (Cohen BJ 2000: 4).

You should always include a page number or second link, whether or not
you have actually quoted the author. The reader wants to know where to go in the source
in order to verify the information.

If you follow the link, it takes you to the annotated bibliography
page with the full bibliographic information on Cohen's book. The page number is not a
link. Although, it would be interesting to see if you can link to the page in question
on Google Books.

The link is coded as follows:

([[Cohen BJ 2000]]: 4)

For information on rules for quotations, see quotations.

Another example of an "in-wiki" citation:

A citation to an article in Louis Jacobs' Concise Companion to the Jewish
Religion would look like this:

(Jacobs CCJR 1999, "Talmud".)

Notice that the citation in this case contains two links. The first is to
the annotated bibliography entry for Jacobs. The second is to the actual article being cited,
on Oxford Reference Online.

The preceding citation is coded like this:

([[Jacobs CCJR 1999]], [[http://0-www.oxfordreference.com.library.acaweb.org:80/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t96.e685 | "Talmud"]])