# How to cite us and press kit

> How to cite Mysteries Department, its datasets and methods, and the press kit: about us in brief, logos and images free to use.

Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/cite  
Publisher: Mysteries Department  
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page)  

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# How to cite us

Every page, dataset and method has a citation box at the bottom. Please cite the original sources too where you use their material.

## The site

```
Mysteries Department. (2026). Mysteries Department: A home for inquiry into the world's mysteries. https://mysteriesdept.com
```

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## A dataset or method

Releases have a DOI from Zenodo. Cite the version you used, so others can get exactly the same data.

```
@dataset{mysteriesdept_voynich_manuscript_token_table_2026,
 author = {apollo},
 title = {Voynich Manuscript token table},
 version = {1.0},
 year = {2026},
 publisher = {Mysteries Department},
 url = {https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT08JFZJ7W34M6/voynich-manuscript-token-table}
}
```

[Copy]·The DOI is assigned when the release is published

## Press kit

Writing about a mystery or about us? Here's what you'll need. For anything else, email us and we'll reply within two working days.

About Mysteries Department, in brief

Mysteries Department is an open research platform for the world's unsolved mysteries. Researchers share sources, datasets and analysis methods, test proposed answers in the open, and review each other's results. Everything on the site is free to read and reuse.

**1** mystery

**20** open questions

**531** sources

**2026** launched

## Logos

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## Images

Free to use with the credit shown. Screenshots of the site are CC BY 4.0.

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Voynich folio 78r. Beinecke Library, public domain

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Voynich rosettes fold-out. Beinecke Library, public domain

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Voynich folio 68r. Beinecke Library, public domain

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