How to cite

The information found on this website represents decades of painstaking scholarly effort. We therefore expect that all use of PESSCA content, including artworks, correspondences, and essays, be properly cited in all publications. Both printed and online. Crediting PESSCA is not just a matter of honesty, it is your legal responsibility. It is also a means for the project to gain the visibility and credibility it needs in order to continue with its work —work which is, we might add, mostly unfunded, completely open to the public, and absolutely free of charge.

One might think that the correspondences found on this website do not need to be cited because they are findings you made while carrying out online research. Or because they are conventional wisdom in the field. Or because information found online does not need to be cited. None of this is true. Correspondences are scholarly discoveries that must be properly recognized and cited. That is why PESSCA provides full citations when it draws correspondences from other other sources.

Use of this website implies a commitment to these views.

To cite a PESSCA artwork within the body of your text you should use the PESSCA Identifier Prefix (or PI Prefix, for short). Thus, artwork 1333A should be cited as PI 1333A. The entire PESSCA website should then be cited in your list of references (see below).

To cite a PESSCA correspondence within the body of your text you should use the PI Prefix as well. Thus, correspondence 1333A/1333B should be cited as PI 1333A/1333B. And the entire PESSCA website should also be cited in your list of references (see below).

To cite the entire PESSCA website within the body of your text, you may write Ojeda 2005–YYYY, where YYYY stands for the year in which you are creating your citation. To cite the entire PESSCA website in your list of references, you may use any standard citing format. Examples are given below in MLA, Chicago Style, and APA formats. MM/DD/YYYY represents, of course, a date format.

MLA 8 Format: Ojeda, Almerindo. 2005-YYYY. Project for the Engraved Sources of Spanish Colonial Art (PESSCA). Website located at colonialart.org. Date Accessed: MM/DD/YYYY.
Chicago Format: Ojeda, Almerindo. Project for the Engraved Sources of Spanish Colonial Art (PESSCA). 2005-YYYY. Website located at colonialart.org. Date Accessed: MM/DD/YYYY.
APA Format: Ojeda, Almerindo. 2005-YYYY. Project for the Engraved Sources of Spanish Colonial Art (PESSCA). Website located at colonialart.org. Date accessed: MM/DD/YYYY.

To cite an essay published in the PESSCA website in your list of references, you may use any standard citing format. Examples are given below in MLA, Chicgo Style, and APA formats. As before, YYYY represents the year in which you are creating the citation, and MM/DD/YYYY is a date format.

MLA 8 Format: Ojeda, Almerindo "Fuentes Grabadas del arte colonial: La evidencia documental." Project for the Engraved Sources of Spanish Colonial Art (PESSCA). 2018-YYYY. Available online at https://colonialart.org/essays/fuentes-grabadas-del-arte-colonial-la-evidencia-documental. Date Accessed: MM/DD/YYYY.

Chicago Format: Ojeda, Almerindo. 2018-YYYY. "Fuentes Grabadas del arte colonial: La evidencia documental." Project for the Engraved Sources of Spanish Colonial Art (PESSCA). Available online at https://colonialart.org/essays/fuentes-grabadas-del-arte-colonial-la-evidencia-documental. Date accessed: MM/DD/YYYY.
APA Format: Ojeda, Almerindo "Fuentes Grabadas del arte colonial: La evidencia documental." Project for the Engraved Sources of Spanish Colonial Art (PESSCA). Available online at https://colonialart.org/essays/fuentes-grabadas-del-arte-colonial-la-evidencia-documental. Date accessed: MM/DD/YYYY.

Online publications are encouraged to make references to PESSCA clickable.

Permissions to use images in the PESSCA website do not extend automatically to other publications. Permission to use an image in the PESSCA website should be requested from the person or institution holding the copyright of the image.