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Hello all!
This past months were very inspiring to me cause I had chance to visit many Local Archives in Western Serbia and to see many original documents and papers that are stored in State Archives of Serbia and University Library here in Belgrade.
In one book, written by one of my high-military ancestor, there was mention that his father's brother (I suppose that it is uncle in English, but ain't sure) signed a letter, appeal to court of Belgrade back in 1890 for releasing dr. Vasa Pelagic, who was fighter for people's rights back in XIX century. In footnote of that book, it stated that original letter is kept by University Library in Belgrade, as part of Archival collection of Vasa Pelagic, under No. 811.
Few days ago I asked one of employees of that Library (my good friend) for scanning of that document. She answered me that document was succesfully scanned and I could visit Library and take a scanned image of document with me on USB flash-drive. Today I visited Library, received many images of that collection, and found out that some researchers published all documents in that collection as a book in 2010.
My question to the forum is:
What would be best solution for citing that letter?
Sincerely,
Fr. Ivan Delic
Serbia
Fr. Delic,
Fr. Delic,
It's good to hear that your research is continuing successfully. In a situation in which we have both an image of the original document and a published transcription, an EE citation would cite the imaged original (and EE's narrative data would take its assertions from the original). EE would then add that the letter has been transcribed and published as part of a larger collection, and then cite the published book.
The format for the original would be EE3.7 (with explanation at 3.1). The format for the published work would be a basic book citation, following the QuickCheck Model at p. 727.