Citation Guide

GEMMS is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. The data in GEMMS is protected by database rights; it is not permissible to scrape or download bulk data from GEMMS or to use it in third-party tools without explicit permission.

Please use the following conventions when citing material from GEMMS.

References to the entire website

GEMMS: Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons <[insert url]>, date accessed.

For example:
GEMMS: Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons <[insert url]>, 26 Jun 2017.

References to individual records

All records for manuscripts, sermons, sermon reports, people, places and Bible books have a unique GEMMS ID, found in the top right of the record. Please include this number, along with other relevant information, when referencing a record. When citing an individual record, the general format is:
“Title of Record (GEMMS ID #),” in GEMMS: Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons <[insert url]>, date accessed.

References to Manuscripts
Name of Repository, Shelfmark, “Title of manuscript (GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-######),” in GEMMS: Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons <[insert url]>, date accessed.

For example:
Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS. Eng. th. b. 6, “Papers of John Warner, (GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-000494),” in GEMMS: Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons <[insert url]>, accessed 26 Jun 2017.

References to Sermons
Name of preacher (if known), “Title of sermon (GEMMS-SERMON-######),” from Name of Repository, Shelfmark, in GEMMS: Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons <[insert url]>, date accessed.

For example:
John Warner, “Sermon 2 on Romans 6:23 (GEMMS-SERMON-006615),” from Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS. Eng. th. b. 6, in GEMMS: Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons <[insert url]>, accessed 26 Jun 2017.

References to Sermon Reports
Name of author(s) (if known), “Title of sermon report (GEMMS-REPORT-######),” from Name of Repository, Shelfmark, in GEMMS: Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons <[insert url]>, date accessed.

For example:
Joseph Hussey, “Church Book of Joseph Hussey (GEMMS-REPORT-000013),” from Cambridgeshire Archives, Cambridge, UK, R107/109, in GEMMS: Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons <[insert url]>, 26 Jun 2017.

References to People
“Name of person (GEMMS-PERSON-######),” in GEMMS: Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons <[insert url]>, date accessed.

For example:
“John Gauden (GEMMS-PERSON-001164),” in GEMMS: Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons <[insert url]>, accessed 26 Jun 2017.

References to Places
“Name of place Place type (if unclear from name), Name of ‘Contained within’ place (GEMMS-PLACE-######),” in GEMMS: Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons <[insert url]>, date accessed.

For example:
“St Edmund Church, Salisbury (GEMMS-PLACE-001033),” in GEMMS: Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons <[insert url]>, 26 Jun 2017.

References to Bible Books
“Name of Bible book (GEMMS-BIBLE_BOOK-######),” in GEMMS: Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons <[insert url]>, date accessed.

For example:
“1 Chronicles (GEMMS-BIBLE_BOOK-000071),” in GEMMS: Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons <[insert url]>, 26 Jun 2017.

References to Webpages

“Title of webpage,” in GEMMS: Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons <[insert url]>, date accessed.

For example:
“About GEMMS,” in GEMMS: Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons <[insert url]>, 26 Jun 2017.