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Help:Citing public-domain texts

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Where to find full texts

  • Wikisource (many languages)
  • Project Gutenberg
  • Internet Archive
  • Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL), including the Ante-Nicene Fathers (1885–96) and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers
  • sacred-texts.com

How to cite

Use <ref>{{Cite book|author=G.R.S. Mead|title=Thrice-Greatest Hermes|year=1906|note=vol. 2}}</ref> and end the page with <references />.

Public-domain check

In the United States, works published before 1931 are in the public domain as of 2026. Check the copyright page of the exact edition. A modern reprint of an old translation can add copyrighted notes or introductions: quote only the old text.

Many popular modern translations (for example of the Nag Hammadi codices) are under copyright. Cite them; do not paste them.

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