HOW TO CITE PRIMARY SOURCES
Primary sources consist of archival materials, manuscripts, and early printed editions of rare books. Primary sources are generally placed in a separate section as the first part of the bibliography. They are arranged alphabetically by the location of the archives or libraries in which they are found. When footnoting primary sources use an abbreviated form. At the beginning of your Bibliography: PRIMARY SOURCES Ottawa, National Archives of Canada ( NAC), Ramezay Family Collection, MG 18 H54. Vatican City, Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV), Cod. Vat. Lat. 6781, Onuphrii Panvinii Veronensis Fratris Eremitae Augustiniani De Ecclesiees [sic] Urbis Romae, Rome, 16th century. Victoria, British Columbia Archives (BCA), Vertical Files, Emily Carr, ‘Carr House full of Memories’, unidentified newspaper clipping, n.d. Victoria, University of Victoria, Special Collections, Brown Collection, 1989-069-5, Papal Bull of Sixtus IV, 1471. Washington DC, Library of Congress (LC), Manuscripts, Taft Papers, series 6, ‘Letter of MacVeagh to Taft’, 8 March 1912. In your footnotes / endnotes: • Archival Material 24. BCA, Vertical Files, Emily Carr, ‘Carr House Full of Memories’, unidentified newspaper clipping, np. 25. BCA, Emily Carr, np. (= no page numbers) • Archival Sources at Second Hand or in a Published Document 26. BAV, Cod. Vat. Lat. 6781, Onuphrii PanviniiVeronensis Fratris Eremitae Augustiniani De Ecclesiees [sic] Urbis Romae, f. 315r, transcribed in P. Lauer, Le Palais de Latran, Etude historique e archéologique (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1911), p. 434. 27. BAV, Cod. Vat. Lat. 6781, f. 315r, in Lauer, Le Palais, p. 434. If you do not consult the archival document/manuscript directly (that is, access it only through the secondary source), only the secondary source needs to appear in your bibliography: Lauer, P., Le Palais de Latran, Etude historique e archéologique (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1911).