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Citing AKASHA

Credit the edition you quote, date the version you read, and link to the page. Every entry and text page has a Cite button that does this for you.

Citing an entry

Cite an entry by its corporate author, AKASHA Archive, with the entry's full title, “AKASHA Library”, the date of the version you read (the “Last revised” date in the entry's status line), its address, and the day you read it. Entries are revised in dated steps, so the date tells your reader which version you saw; the revision history at the foot of each entry lists every change.

Example: Mesopotamian Cosmogony, with the version date as the access date. The Cite button uses the day you read it.
Chicago
AKASHA Archive. "Mesopotamian Cosmogony: The Enūma eliš and the Sumerian–Akkadian Creation Traditions." AKASHA Library. Last modified November 12, 2026. Accessed November 12, 2026. https://www.akashacodex.com/library/mesopotamian-cosmogony.
MLA
AKASHA Archive. "Mesopotamian Cosmogony: The Enūma eliš and the Sumerian–Akkadian Creation Traditions." AKASHA Library, 12 Nov. 2026, www.akashacodex.com/library/mesopotamian-cosmogony. Accessed 12 Nov. 2026.
APA
AKASHA Archive. (2026, November 12). Mesopotamian Cosmogony: The Enūma eliš and the Sumerian–Akkadian Creation Traditions. AKASHA Library. https://www.akashacodex.com/library/mesopotamian-cosmogony
In text: (AKASHA Archive, 2026)
BibTeX
@online{akasha-mesopotamian-cosmogony,
  author       = {{AKASHA Archive}},
  title        = {Mesopotamian Cosmogony: The Enūma eliš and the Sumerian–Akkadian Creation Traditions},
  organization = {AKASHA Library},
  date         = {2026-11-12},
  url          = {https://www.akashacodex.com/library/mesopotamian-cosmogony},
  urldate      = {2026-11-12}
}

Citing a primary text from the Codex

When you quote a primary text, cite the printed edition: its translator, title, publisher and year, with the line and the printed page. That keeps the credit with the translator and lets anyone check the passage in the book. Add that you read it in AKASHA's transcription, with the link to the line. Every line in the Codex has its own address, and its page number links to the scan of the printed book.

Example: Enūma eliš, first line, with the transcription's last revised date as the access date.
Chicago
King, L. W., trans. The Seven Tablets of Creation. Vol. 1. London: Luzac and Co., 1902. Tablet I, line 1, p. 3. Transcribed by AKASHA Archive. Accessed November 10, 2026. https://www.akashacodex.com/texts/enuma-elish-king-1902/tablet-1#I.1.
MLA
King, L. W., translator. The Seven Tablets of Creation. Vol. 1, Luzac and Co., 1902, Tablet I, line 1, p. 3. Transcribed by AKASHA Archive, www.akashacodex.com/texts/enuma-elish-king-1902/tablet-1#I.1. Accessed 10 Nov. 2026.
APA
King, L. W. (Trans.). (1902). The seven tablets of creation (Vol. 1). Luzac and Co. Transcribed by AKASHA Archive. https://www.akashacodex.com/texts/enuma-elish-king-1902/tablet-1#I.1
In text: (King, 1902, Tablet I, line 1, p. 3)
BibTeX
@book{king1902,
  translator = {King, L. W.},
  title      = {The Seven Tablets of Creation},
  volume     = {1},
  publisher  = {Luzac and Co.},
  location   = {London},
  year       = {1902},
  note       = {Tablet I, line 1, p. 3. Transcribed by AKASHA Archive},
  url        = {https://www.akashacodex.com/texts/enuma-elish-king-1902/tablet-1#I.1},
  urldate    = {2026-11-10}
}

Quoting AKASHA's own writing

The entries, notes and AKASHA Readings are AKASHA's own writing and remain under copyright. You are welcome to quote short passages with credit and a link. Please do not republish or sell whole entries.

The primary texts in the Codex are public-domain translations, and they stay in the public domain: we do not claim them. Cite them to their printed editions, as above.

How entries are written and checked: Methods. Back to the Library.