How to cite Pleiades
A key goal for Pleiades is to provide a stable reference for ancient places. That means cool URIs that don't change. It also now means guidance for users on how to construct a more-or-less traditional bibliographic citation for a Pleiades place resource. From now on, you'll find a "suggested citation" near the bottom of each place page.
For example, on the newly updated place resource page for Noiodounon Diablintum (modern Jublains in France), you'll find the following suggested citation:
Galliou, P., R. Talbert, T. Elliott, S. Gillies, J. Åhlfeldt. "Places: 69539 (Noiodounon Diablintum)". Pleiades. <http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/69539> [Accessed: December 7, 2011 3:03 pm]
Following a suggestion from Daniel Pett (British Museum and Portable Antiquities), we've also added Wikipedia citation codes:
{{cite web |url=http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/69539 |title=Places: 69539 (Noiodounon Diablintum) |author=Galliou, P., R. Talbert, T. Elliott, S. Gillies, J. Åhlfeldt |accessdate=December 7, 2011 3:03 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}
Kudos:
- to Eric Kansa for the example of suggested citations in OpenContext
- to Sean Gillies for thinking of it and making it happen
- to Johan Åhlfeldt for the newly added locations, modern name, and expanded references
- to Seb Chan of Australia's Powerhouse Museum for the Wikipedia citation code recipe