How we cite sources on Stonewake pages
Stonewake pages cite sources so a credit desk can reopen the same public document a claim rests on. Citations are stable URLs to primary institutional pages whenever possible, with verbatim quotes for customer-visible product findings. Public explainers list fetched sources in frontmatter and link definitions in the glossary.
Citation standard for product findings
Product citations follow a hard acceptance test published on the public stonewake.ai llms.txt. A citation must be a stable URL whose publicly served text still carries the verbatim quote used in the finding. Pagination indexes and homepage URLs are unacceptable when they lack the quoted passage.
Findings read Verified or Reported. Invented claims are not presented as facts. That standard sits beside citations and evidence. It supports committee defensibility for Deal Book lines, country composite components, organisation and country adverse media screening drafts, and monitoring brief facts. Analysts confirm scores and verdicts; citations make that review possible without trusting an opaque summary.
Citation standard for public editorial pages
Editorial pages cite sources by naming the institution and linking the exact public page fetched when the fact was checked. Preferred sources include OECD materials, official ECA sites, FATF and EU list pages, GLEIF for LEI context, and primary legislation hosts when a directive or statute is quoted.
EBA and other supervisory primers may frame customer due diligence language. LEI context points at GLEIF or the issuing registration authority page that carries the fact. Secondary commentary is subordinate. If a trade article is the only pointer to a primary PDF, the page cites the primary document once retrieved. Numbers, dates, and thresholds without a fetched source are cut, not hedged. ICMJE corrections guidance separates honest factual error from debate; citation practice makes factual claims checkable in the first place.
How monitoring briefs cite sources
Monitoring briefs name sources and link them. Each stated fact must trace to a cited source record that still supports the statement at publication time. Licence-required attribution lines are reproduced when mandated. Organisations and jurisdictions are in scope; natural persons are not.
When retention ends, briefs built on that source may be withdrawn, per the public monitoring methodology. The Atom feed distributes the same cited briefs. It does not relax the quote or record rule.
What counts as a weak citation
Weak citations include homepage URLs that never contain the alleged sentence, paraphrases presented as quotes, undated screenshots without a recoverable live URL, circular citations to Stonewake for external institutional facts, and sanctions conclusions inferred from silence. Official list matching remains a separate control.
Sanctions screening against official lists is not replaced by adverse-media evidence labels. Country risk components that are missing stay missing rather than defaulting to a safe score.
Relationship to methodology and corrections
How we cite sources on public pages is the editorial twin of product evidence methodology. Methodology pages state capability-level rules without disclosing providers or extraction internals. Trust and methodology links travel together so procurement readers see both the commercial site and the evidence contract.
When a cited page changes or a quote disappears, the finding or editorial claim follows the corrections policy: update, relabel, or withdraw. ICMJE version-control expectations favour citing the most recent corrected version of a work; Stonewake public pages similarly point readers at the live institutional text rather than a stale mirror when the official host remains available.
Boundaries
Citation guidance does not teach how to scrape registers for origination advantage, does not publish customer bank names, and does not inventory vendors. It does not claim every public webpage is equally reliable. Source quality still requires desk judgment on each file.
Related reading: editorial policy, about our content, and citations and evidence.