status: draft

key: analects-book-chapter

type: CitationSystem

preferred_label: Analects book-chapter

description: The Analects (Lunyu) is divided into 20 books; each book contains numbered chapters (passages). Citation form: `book.chapter`, e.g. 1.1, 2.4, 20.3.


key: bekker

preferred_label: Bekker numbering (Aristotelian corpus)

description: Bekker numbering: page, column (a or b), and line, after August Immanuel Bekker's 1831 Berlin edition. Pages span the whole corpus from 1 (Categories 1a1) to roughly 1462. Canonical form: page and line are positive integers without leading zeros; the column letter is lowercase.


key: bible-book-chapter-verse

preferred_label: Bible book-chapter-verse (OSIS)

description: OSIS locator: `Book.Chapter.Verse`. The canonical book vocabulary is the OSIS book abbreviation list (CrossWire), case-sensitive as published there — e.g. `Gen`, `Exod`, `Matt`, `John`, `1Cor`. Chapter and verse are positive integers without leading zeros. Both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament cite with this grammar.


key: dante-cantica-canto-verse

preferred_label: Dante cantica-canto-verse

description: Dante's Divina Commedia cited by cantica, canto and verse (`cantica.canto.verse`), e.g. Inf.1.1, Purg.13.25, Par.33.145. The cantica is a fixed three-value vocabulary: Inf, Purg, Par. 100 cantos, 14,233 verses.


key: daodejing-chapter

preferred_label: Daodejing chapter (transmitted 81-chapter text)

description: The transmitted (received) Daodejing has 81 chapters, cited by chapter number as in the received Wang Bi text. The Mawangdui and Guodian witnesses use different orderings and are not addressed by this profile.


key: dhammapada-chapter-verse

preferred_label: Dhammapada chapter-and-verse

description: Dhammapada cited by chapter and verse (`chapter.verse`), e.g. 1.1 through 26.41, following the standard Pali Text Society numbering of 423 verses in 26 chapters.


key: genji-chapter

preferred_label: Genji chapter (54-chapter Aobyōshi sequence)

description: The Tale of Genji is conventionally divided into 54 chapters in the Aobyōshi (青表紙本) sequence followed by most modern editions; cited by chapter number.


key: homer-book-line

preferred_label: Homeric book-line

description: Both the Iliad and the Odyssey are conventionally divided into 24 books; lines are cited within each book as `book.line`.


key: hume-book-part-section-paragraph

preferred_label: Hume book-part-section-paragraph

description: Hume's Treatise of Human Nature cited by book, part, section and paragraph (`book.part.section.paragraph`), e.g. 1.3.6.4, following the paragraph numbering of Hume Texts Online. 3 books, 10 parts, 90 sections, 1,213 paragraphs.


key: hume-section-paragraph

preferred_label: Hume section-and-paragraph

description: Hume's first Enquiry cited by section and paragraph (`section.paragraph`), e.g. 1.1 through 12.34, following the paragraph numbering of Hume Texts Online. 12 sections, 255 paragraphs.


key: integer-section

preferred_label: Integer section numbering

description: Generic integer section locators. Exact work-specific bounds are enforced by registered CanonicalReference records, not by this shape check.


key: stephanus

preferred_label: Stephanus pagination (Platonic corpus)

description: Stephanus pagination: page, section (a–e), and optional sub-line, after Henri Estienne's 1578 edition of Plato's works. Canonical form: page and sub-line are positive integers without leading zeros; the section letter is lowercase.


key: tractatus-proposition

preferred_label: Tractatus proposition numbering

description: The Tractatus is cited by proposition numbers such as 1, 2.0121, 6.54, 7. The regex checks locator shape only; the work enumerates the sparse set.