Citing and Republishing

We want our work quoted, cited, and republished. One way we judge whether the publication is doing its job is whether people across the political spectrum engage it directly. So we keep the rules simple and the friction low. One condition matters to us, and we explain it below.

How to cite us

Cite the author by pen name:

Alder, "[Article title]," The Cairn Review, [date], [link].

For a specific passage, link to the original at cairnreview.com so readers can see it in context.

Quoting

Quote us freely. Short excerpts for commentary, criticism, or news reporting — with attribution and a link to the original — never need permission.

Republishing in full

You may republish a whole piece, including in a commercial outlet, free of charge, under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY 4.0). Credit The Cairn Review and the author, and link to the original. Translations are welcome on the same terms.

The one condition: don't misrepresent us

An attribution license lets you edit and adapt. We ask one thing, and we keep one right.

We ask: if you change a piece, make the change visible, so your edits are not read as ours.

We keep: where an altered version reverses or distorts what we wrote, we will ask you to take our name and the author's off it. This license lets us ask that the attribution be removed; we are not asking you to take your own version down.

The unaltered version always lives at cairnreview.com, and we encourage readers to check it against any copy.

If we correct a piece you've run

We sometimes correct published work. If you have republished a piece and we issue a correction, please carry it. Our corrections page lists them.

Permissions and questions

Anything outside these terms, or just a question: editor@cairnreview.com.