Citation guide · Aarambam era

How to cite TLTE

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TLTE Docs Hub is a citable scholarly publication. This page gives templates for the most common citation styles, plus the rules of the tlte-cite: namespace that holds the corpus together. Currently 667 editorially-verified records are live.

Three rules

◆Era, not date. TLTE does not use calendar dates as the publication year. Use Aarambam era in the year field. The site does not publish drift markers; readers can verify revisions on the Continuity Changelog.
◆Cite the resolver, not the redirect. Always cite https://docs.tlte.cloud/cite/<slug> rather than the original source URL — the resolver page is permanent and includes a Wayback fallback even if the source rots.
◆TLTE is the publisher, not the author of external sources. When citing a primary source via the registry (e.g. the 1948 Citizenship Act), the original author / institution is the author. TLTE Docs Hub is the publisher of the resolver record.

Sample citations

An entire TLTE dossier (APA 7th)

TLTE C.I.C. (Aarambam era). The Citizenship Acts 1948–1964: How a million Tamils were made stateless by statute (Dossier 02). TLTE Docs Hub. https://docs.tlte.cloud/critical-research/citizenship-acts

An entire TLTE dossier (Chicago, notes-bibliography)

TLTE C.I.C. "The Citizenship Acts 1948–1964: How a Million Tamils Were Made Stateless by Statute." TLTE Docs Hub, Aarambam era. https://docs.tlte.cloud/critical-research/citizenship-acts.

An entire TLTE dossier (MLA 9th)

TLTE C.I.C. "The Citizenship Acts 1948–1964: How a Million Tamils Were Made Stateless by Statute." TLTE Docs Hub, Aarambam era, docs.tlte.cloud/critical-research/citizenship-acts.

A single source via the tlte-cite: namespace

Government of Ceylon. Ceylon Citizenship Act No. 18 of 1948. Reproduced via TLTE Citation Registry, tlte-cite:ceylon-citizenship-act-1948. https://docs.tlte.cloud/cite/ceylon-citizenship-act-1948.

The Maritime Desk evidence record

TLTE Maritime Desk. Cited Evidence Record — Cross-Strait Fisher Incidents. TLTE Docs Hub, Aarambam era. https://docs.tlte.cloud/thayagam/maritime/evidence-record.

The Continuity Protocol changelog

TLTE C.I.C. Continuity Protocol Changelog (append-only). TLTE Docs Hub, Aarambam era. https://docs.tlte.cloud/continuity/changelog.

BibTeX

@misc{tlte_citizenship_acts,
  author       = {{TLTE C.I.C.}},
  title        = {The Citizenship Acts 1948--1964: How a Million Tamils
                  Were Made Stateless by Statute},
  howpublished = {TLTE Docs Hub, Dossier 02},
  year         = {Aarambam era},
  note         = {Source-anchored research dossier},
  url          = {https://docs.tlte.cloud/critical-research/citizenship-acts}
}

@misc{tlte_cite_namespace,
  author       = {{TLTE C.I.C.}},
  title        = {TLTE Citation Registry --- the {tlte-cite:} namespace},
  howpublished = {TLTE Docs Hub, Citation Layer},
  year         = {Aarambam era},
  note         = {Append-only resolver. URL pattern:
                  https://docs.tlte.cloud/cite/<slug>},
  url          = {https://docs.tlte.cloud/cite}
}

@misc{tlte_maritime_evidence,
  author       = {{TLTE Maritime Desk}},
  title        = {Cited Evidence Record --- Cross-Strait Fisher Incidents},
  howpublished = {TLTE Docs Hub, Maritime Desk},
  year         = {Aarambam era},
  url          = {https://docs.tlte.cloud/thayagam/maritime/evidence-record}
}

The tlte-cite: namespace

Every editorially-verified source carries a permanent identifier in the form tlte-cite:<slug>. Slugs are append-only — once published they are never re-used or re-pointed. The canonical resolver lives at https://docs.tlte.cloud/cite/<slug>.

Tier A

From sovereignty to modernity: revisiting the Colebrooke–Cameron Reforms

tlte-cite:colebrooke-1833

Tier A

Sri Lanka — The British — The Colebrooke–Cameron Reforms

tlte-cite:colebrooke-cameron-overview

Tier A

The First Reforms, 1833 — Path to Freedom

tlte-cite:slna-1833

Tier B

Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka: The Dilemma of Building a Unitary State

tlte-cite:unitary-state-dilemma

Machine-readable

The full registry is published as JSON for re-use by researchers, archivists, and downstream citation tools. The endpoint is stable and CORS-open.

Download /api/citations.jsonMaritime evidence pack (.md)

If a source rots

Every resolver page exposes a Wayback snapshot fallback and a Snapshot now link that triggers a fresh capture. If you cite TLTE in print, we recommend running the Snapshot now link once before publication.

Critical Research Maritime Evidence Record All Changelogs