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Created: 09-11-2026 · Last updated: 09-11-2026

Cite & DOI

Every CDSL citation answer starts with one question: are you citing the corpus, one dictionary, or these guides? They have different DOIs, and mixing them is the usual source of a broken citation.

Cite the whole corpus​

The umbrella DOI for the entire dictionary corpus — the weekly csl-sqlite bundle that carries all 43 dictionaries — is the concept DOI:

Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries. Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.21319331

Quote the corpus version and access date alongside it; the corpus is re-released and the concept DOI always resolves to the latest archived version:

Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries, version 2.11.0,
Cologne University, accessed on <date>,
DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21319331 (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21319331)
https://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de

Cite one dictionary​

A single dictionary is a citable dataset in its own right and has its own Zenodo concept DOI — cite that when your claim rests on one dictionary rather than the corpus. The complete, machine-checked list (one row per dictionary, with each concept DOI and its resolving link) lives in one place:

Each dictionary repository also carries its own CITATION.cff and a README DOI badge, so the DOI travels with the repository that produces the data.

Cite these guides​

The guides are documentation, not data; they are a separate work. If you cite the guides themselves:

Gasūns, M. et al. Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: user, contributor, and developer guides. https://sanskrit-lexicon.github.io/csl-guides/

The repository's CITATION.cff is the authoritative machine-readable form and names the corpus umbrella DOI as the data citation, not as the citation for the documentation.

Which DOI goes where — one-line rule​

You are citingCite
The corpus as a wholeumbrella concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21319331
One dictionary's datathat dictionary's own Zenodo concept DOI (hub table)
These guides / this sitethe csl-guides repository (no separate DOI)
An analysis built on CDSL datathe corpus or dictionary DOI plus the snapshot/version you used
note

Per-version DOIs stay inside each deposit's CITATION.cff / Zenodo record; the concept DOI is the stable citation target and is what the surfaces above publish.