How to Cite

Stable addresses

Every piece on the site has one permanent address, and the date lives in the metadata rather than in the address, so links do not break when a piece is revised or reclassified.

Slugs are not changed after publication. If a page ever has to move, its old address redirects to the new one. Every page also carries its own citation block, generated from its metadata in APA, Bluebook and BibTeX form, ready to copy.

Citing a specific version

The Institute revises its work in place and records each change (see Editorial Standards). If your argument depends on the exact wording of a framework or thesis, cite the version you read.

• Frameworks. Give the version number and its date, both shown on the framework page and in its changelog. For example: The Four Laws of System Design for Computational Law, version 1.0 (21 April 2026).
• Theses. Give the thesis number and the date of the revision you relied on, both shown in the thesis's revision history. For example: Thesis N (revised 26 June 2026).
• Articles. Give the original publication date, and add the revision date if you are quoting revised text.

Because each changelog describes earlier versions, a reader can recover what version 1.0 said after version 2.0 appears.

Citing persona pieces

Some pieces are published under the names of the Institute's editorial personas, which are house voices rather than real people. When citing them, keep the byline as published and identify it as an Institute persona, for example: Eleanor Voss (Computational Law Institute editorial persona), Right Law, Wrong Stage.

Citing papers

For papers posted on SSRN, cite the SSRN record, which is the version of record for a working paper. The paper's page on this site is a companion that summarizes the argument and links to related work.

Worked example: Ariadne's Thread

Ross Brodskiy and Nathan Pokov, Ariadne's Thread: Legal Determinacy as Measured Dispersion across Posture-Instantiated Adjudicators, posted to SSRN on 18 July 2026 as abstract 7001179.

APA

Brodskiy, R., & Pokov, N. (2026, July 18). Ariadne's thread: Legal determinacy as measured dispersion across posture-instantiated adjudicators [Working paper]. SSRN. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7001179

In APA the title is set in italics.

Bluebook

Ross Brodskiy & Nathan Pokov, Ariadne's Thread: Legal Determinacy as Measured Dispersion across Posture-Instantiated Adjudicators (July 18, 2026) (unpublished manuscript), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7001179.

In Bluebook form the title is set in italics (or in large and small capitals, following your publication's typeface conventions for law review footnotes).

BibTeX

@misc{brodskiy2026ariadne,
  author       = {Brodskiy, Ross and Pokov, Nathan},
  title        = {Ariadne's Thread: Legal Determinacy as Measured Dispersion across Posture-Instantiated Adjudicators},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = jul,
  howpublished = {SSRN},
  note         = {SSRN abstract 7001179, posted 18 July 2026},
  url          = {https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7001179}
}

Patterns for pieces on this site

Replace the bracketed parts with the details shown on the page. The site address is the full address of the page you are citing.

APA
[Author surname], [Initials]. ([Year], [Month] [Day]). [Title] (Version [n], if a framework). Computational Law Institute. [site address]

Bluebook
[Author], [Title] (version [n], if a framework), Computational Law Inst. ([Month] [Day], [Year]), [site address].

BibTeX
@online{[key],
  author  = {[Surname], [Given name]},
  title   = {[Title]},
  version = {[n]},
  date    = {[YYYY-MM-DD]},
  organization = {Computational Law Institute},
  url     = {[site address]}
}