Relational Citation Style Handbook

Have you ever wondered how to cite your friends? Your teachers? Maybe you’ve wondered how to cite your mother or father, or gossip you overheard?

The Relational Citation Style (RCS) Handbook introduces an alternative citation framework developed around the idea that knowledge is communally generated rather than individually produced.

Expanding beyond conventional academic attribution, the system treats oral transmission, collaborative thinking, and shared intellectual exchange as legitimate scholarly sources that can be properly credited and traced through relational lineages.

Designed as a guide to the broader Relational Citation System project, the handbook outlines the structure and use of the citation system through explanatory texts, examples, and custom typographic symbols. The system proposes new visual methods for documenting networks of influence, conversation, and collective authorship.