Reference
Computable Authority is attributed to the initiative, not to an individual byline. Every citation carries a version date rather than a fixed publication year — cite the version you read, because the discipline is still being written.
Citing the discipline
Use this form to reference the field guide as a whole — the Manifesto, the Laws, the syllabus, and the research library taken together.
Cite this
Suggested citation
SafeHaven. Computable Authority: A Field Guide. Computable Authority. https://www.computableauthority.com/
BibTeX
@misc{computableauthority-fieldguide,
author = {SafeHaven},
title = {Computable Authority: A Field Guide},
howpublished = {Computable Authority},
url = {https://www.computableauthority.com/},
}Machine-readable metadata for the same citation is published as CITATION.cff (the format GitHub, Zenodo, and most research-software registries read directly).
Citing a specific page
Prefer citing the specific page you used over the field guide as a whole — it points a reader to the exact claim and its exact version date. The Manifesto, the Laws, and every Research Library entry carry a "Cite this" block at the bottom of the page.
Why a version date instead of a year
This initiative has no fixed edition and no DOI issuing body behind it yet. A citation anchored only to a publication year would go stale the moment a Law is revised or a definition sharpens — and both have already happened. The version date in each citation block is the actual last-revised date of that page, so a citation made today and one made after a revision will visibly disagree, which is the point: it tells the reader which version the claim they're checking came from.
License
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