Introduction to Works Cited
This list of sources
serves as a comprehensive guide to all sources cited on this website. Annotation has
been documented with original sources where possible and practical. In entries for
manuscript sources, dates identify when the manuscript was created, which is not
necessarily the time period the manuscript covers. Newspaper entries provide beginning
and ending years for the publication. Since newspapers often changed names or editors
over time, such dates typically approximate the years the paper was active under a
particular editor; when it is impractical to provide beginning and ending publication
dates by an editor’s tenure, dates may be determined by major events in the paper’s
history, such as a merger with another sizable newspaper.
Some sources
cited on
this website
are referred to on first and subsequent occurrences by a conventional shortened
citation. For convenience, some documents are referred to by editorial titles
rather than by their original titles or by the titles given in the catalogs of
their current repositories, in which case the list of works cited provides the
editorial title followed by full bibliographic information.
Scriptural
References
The annotation
in
The Joseph Smith Papers includes numerous references to works
accepted as scripture by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The
principal citations of Latter-day Saint scripture appearing in annotation are to JS-era
published or manuscript versions. However, for reader convenience, these
citations also include a bracketed reference to the current and widely
available Latter-day Saint scriptural canon. All versions of scripture cited on
this website,
early or modern, are identified in the list of works cited.
The church’s
current scriptural canon consists of the King James (or Authorized) Version of
the Bible (KJV), plus three other volumes: the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and
Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price. The following paragraphs provide more
detailed information about uniquely Latter-day Saint scriptures and how they are cited on
this website.
Book of Mormon. The first edition of the Book of Mormon was
printed for JS in 1830.
He oversaw the publication of subsequent editions in 1837
and 1840.
The Book of Mormon, like the Bible, consists of a number of shorter books.
However, the website
cites early editions of the Book of Mormon by page numbers because these
editions were not divided into numbered verses. The bracketed references to the
modern (1981 and
2013) Latter-day Saint edition of this work identify
the book name with modern chapter and verse.
Doctrine and Covenants. JS authorized publication of early
revelations beginning in 1832 in The Evening and the Morning
Star, the church’s first newspaper, and initiated the publication of a
compilation of revelations, which first appeared in 1833 under the title Book of
Commandments. Revised and expanded versions of
this compilation were published in 1835
and 1844
under the title Doctrine and Covenants. Since JS’s time, The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints has continued to issue revised and expanded
versions of the Doctrine and Covenants, as has the Community of Christ
(formerly the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints). The
bracketed references to the modern (1981
and 2013) Latter-day Saint edition of the Doctrine and
Covenants, which cite by section number and verse, use the abbreviation D&C
in the place of Doctrine and Covenants. A table titled Corresponding
Section Numbers in Editions of the Doctrine and Covenants
aligns the corresponding section numbers of the three JS-era compilations
and the current editions of the Doctrine and Covenants published by The Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and by the Community of Christ. For more
information about the format of Doctrine and Covenants citations, see the Editorial Method.
Joseph Smith Bible revision. Beginning in June 1830, JS
systematically reviewed the text of the KJV and made revisions and additions to
it. JS largely completed the work in 1833, but only a few excerpts were
published in his lifetime. The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints published the entire work in 1867 under the title Holy Scriptures and
included excerpts from the writings of Moses in two sections of its Doctrine
and Covenants. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which today
officially refers to JS’s Bible revisions as the Joseph Smith Translation, has
never published the entire work, but two excerpts are canonized in the Pearl of
Great Price and many other excerpts are included in the footnotes and appendix
of the modern (1979 and
2013) Latter-day Saint edition of the KJV. In the
Papers, references to JS’s Bible revision are cited to the
original manuscripts, with a bracketed reference given where possible to the
relevant book, chapter, and verse of the Joseph Smith Translation.
Pearl of Great Price. The Pearl of Great Price, a collection
of miscellaneous writings that primarily
originated with JS, was first published in 1851 and
was canonized by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1880. The
modern (1981
and 2013) edition of this work consists of the
following: selections from the Book of Moses, an extract from JS’s Bible
revision manuscripts; the Book of Abraham, writings translated
by
JS
beginning in 1835 after the acquisition
of some
Egyptian papyri and first published in the Times and Seasons in 1842;
Joseph Smith—Matthew, another extract from JS’s Bible revision manuscripts;
Joseph Smith—History, a selection from the history that JS began working on in
1838; and the Articles of Faith, a statement of beliefs included in a JS letter
to Chicago newspaper editor John Wentworth and published in the Times
and Seasons in 1842. Except in the case of Joseph Smith—History,
citations on
this website
to early versions of each of these works also include a bracketed reference to
the corresponding chapter and verse in the modern Latter-day Saint canon. The
Pearl of Great Price is not part of the canon of the Community of Christ.
References to the history JS began work on in 1838 are cited to the original
manuscript of that history (see entry on “JS History” in the list of works
cited).
Legal References and Court Abbreviations
Citations to
legal cases on
this website
usually reference the name of the case; the name of the legal reporter in which
information about the case was published (when applicable), together with
volume and page number; the deciding court; and the year of the court’s
decision. Legal reporters documenting court
decisions are referred to by an abbreviated title; full bibliographic
information for each reporter is provided in the list of works cited,
alphabetized under the abbreviated title. For example, in the citation “In re Clark, 9 Wendell 212 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 1832),” the case
name is In re Clark, information about the case is
located on page 212 in volume 9 of the legal reporter abbreviated as Wendell,
and the case was decided by the New York Supreme Court in 1832.
Jurisdictions and
court names used in legal citations are contemporary to the year of the cited
case and do not necessarily correspond to modern courts or jurisdictions. In
accordance with Nauvoo’s charter, Nauvoo’s mayor and aldermen simultaneously
held positions as justices of the peace within the limits of Nauvoo; cases
decided in Nauvoo’s municipal or mayor’s court do not use the “J.P. Ct.”
designation.
C.C.D. Ill. | Circuit Court of the District of Illinois |
C.C.W.D. Mo. | Circuit Court of the Western District of Missouri |
Daviess Co. Cir. Ct. | Daviess County, Missouri, Circuit Court |
Hancock Co. Cir. Ct. | Hancock County, Illinois, Circuit Court |
Ill. Sup. Ct. | Illinois Supreme Court |
J.P. Ct. | Justice of the Peace Court |
Mass. Sup. Jud. Ct. | Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court |
Mo. 5th Cir. Ct. | Fifth Judicial Circuit Court of Missouri |
Nauvoo Mayor’s Ct. | Nauvoo, Illinois, Mayor’s Court |
Nauvoo Mun. Ct. | Nauvoo, Illinois, Municipal Court |
N.Y. Sup. Ct. | New York Supreme Court |
Warren Co. Cir. Ct. | Warren County, Missouri, Circuit Court |
Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Repositories
BYU | L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah |
CCLA | Community of Christ Library-Archives, Independence, Missouri |
CHL | Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City |
FHL | Family History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City |
MSA | Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City |