引用學者:Stephen R. Bokenkamp(為英語世界早期道教文獻翻譯與譜系研究之權威,本集多處引其對天師道、上清、靈寶三大系統之考辨。・Early Daoist Scriptures (1997, UC Press) — 譯註《想爾注》、《靈寶經》、《真誥》英文選本;Ancestors and Anxiety: Daoism and the Birth of Rebirth in China (2007, UC Press) — 論葛氏家族與靈寶經派) · Suzanne Cahill(為唐代女仙與西王母研究之第一人,本集女仙部分廣引其對玉真公主、謝自然、何仙姑等之考論。・Transcendence and Divine Passion: The Queen Mother of the West in Medieval China (1993, Stanford UP);Divine Traces of the Daoist Sisterhood: Records of the Assembled Transcendents of the Fortified Walled City by Du Guangting (2006, Three Pines Press)) · Robert Ford Campany(為神仙傳記文類研究之集大成者,本集多次引其對「成仙敘事」社會功能之分析。・To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth: A Translation and Study of Ge Hong's Traditions of Divine Transcendents (2002, UC Press);Making Transcendents: Ascetics and Social Memory in Early Medieval China (2009, Hawaii UP)) · Isabelle Robinet(為上清經派與道教史通論之歐洲權威,本集陶弘景、茅盈、許遜等條目主要參酌其考辨。・Méditation taoïste (1979) / Taoist Meditation: The Mao-shan Tradition of Great Purity (1993, SUNY);La révélation du Shangqing dans l'histoire du Taoïsme (1984, EFEO)) · 卿希泰(為中國道教學界通史之奠基者,本集歷史脈絡與譜系分析主要依其體系展開。・《中國道教史》四卷本(1988-1995,四川人民出版社);《中國道教思想史》(2009,人民出版社))