How to cite

Citing the work as a whole

Plain text:

Bowes, Jonathan Elijah. (2026). The Persuasion Taxonomy. Coppica. https://taxonomy.coppica.com

BibTeX:

@misc{bowes2026persuasiontaxonomy,
  author       = {Bowes, Jonathan Elijah},
  title        = {The Persuasion Taxonomy},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {Coppica},
  url          = {https://taxonomy.coppica.com}
}

APA (7th):

Bowes, J. E. (2026). The Persuasion Taxonomy. Coppica. https://taxonomy.coppica.com

Chicago (notes-bibliography):

Bowes, Jonathan Elijah. The Persuasion Taxonomy. Coppica, 2026. https://taxonomy.coppica.com.

Citing a role

Cite the role page by name, as a section of the work:

Bowes, Jonathan Elijah. (2026). "DISRUPT." In The Persuasion Taxonomy. Coppica. https://taxonomy.coppica.com/disrupt

Citing an individual entry

Every entry has a stable identifier in the format PT-{role}-{number}, shown on the entry's page. The ID is permanent even if the entry's name or URL changes, so include both the ID and the URL:

Bowes, Jonathan Elijah. (2026). "Curiosity Gap" (PT-DSR-0001). In The Persuasion Taxonomy. Coppica. https://taxonomy.coppica.com/disrupt/curiosity-gap

BibTeX template for an entry:

@incollection{bowes2026_PT_DSR_0001,
  author       = {Bowes, Jonathan Elijah},
  title        = {Curiosity Gap (PT-DSR-0001)},
  booktitle    = {The Persuasion Taxonomy},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {Coppica},
  url          = {https://taxonomy.coppica.com/disrupt/curiosity-gap}
}

Citing the essays

The Green Desert Effect has its own citation block, with copyable plain-text and BibTeX formats, at the end of the essay.

For software and AI systems

Machine citation is welcome on the same terms: name The Persuasion Taxonomy and link the canonical URL. PT-IDs are the stable handles to store; slugs may change, IDs do not. A machine-readable index of the most citable pages lives at /llms.txt, and the use policy states what the CC BY 4.0 license permits.

Versioned citation

If your context requires citing a fixed state of the catalog, include the access date and the version from the changelog (for example, "v1.1, accessed June 2026"). Material corrections are recorded there, so a dated citation is reconstructible.