Nietzsche’s works are referenced as follows: Title abbreviation, book number, essay number, section name, aphorism number, page number (especially for BT and UO). The Stanford edition has been chosen if available, otherwise the Cambridge edition is used. In addition, most of the translations available have been consulted and compared with the original German, with frequent amendments to the translation being made. The changes which are considerable are signalled with an asterisk * in the footnotes.
Collected Works
| KGW | Nietzsche Werke Kritische Gestamtausgabe |
| KSA | Friedrich Nietzsche: Sämtliche Werke. Kritische Studienausgabe |
| KGB | Nietzsche Briefe Kritische Gestamtausgabe |
| KSAB | Friedrich Nietzsche: Sämtliche Briefe. Kritische Studienausgabe |
| eKGWB | Friedrich Nietzsche Digitale Kritische Gesamtausgabe Werke und Briefe |
| NO | Nietzsche Online |
| CWFN | Collected Works of Friedrich Nietzsche |
| EN | Writings from the Early Notebooks |
| LN | Writings from the Late Notebooks |
| NSL | Nietzsche’s Selected Letters |
| PB | The Peacock and the Buffalo. The Poetry of Friedrich Nietzsche |
| WP | The Will to Power |
Individual Works
| AC | The Anti-Christ |
| ASC | Attempt at Self-Criticism |
| BGE | Beyond Good and Evil. Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future |
| BT | The Birth of Tragedy: or Hellenism and Pessimism |
| BTT | The Birth of Tragic Thought |
| CW | The Case of Wagner. A Musician’s Problem |
| D | Daybreak |
| DD | The Dithyrambs of Dionysus |
| DS | David Strauss, the Confessor and Writer |
| DW | The Dionysian World-View |
Ecce Homo. How One Becomes What One Is | |
| FE | The Future of our Educational Institutions |
| GDG | Der Gottesdienst der Griechen |
| GG | Die Geburt des tragischen Gedankens |
| GGL | Geschichte Griechishe Literatur 1–3 |
| GM | The Genealogy of Morals. A Polemic |
| GMD | Griechische Musik Drama |
| GS | The Gay Science |
| HC | Homer’s Contest |
| HH | Human, All too Human |
| HL | On the Use and Abuse of History for Life |
| MM | Mixed Opinions and Maxims |
| NCW | Nietzsche contra Wagner |
| PD | Einführung in das Studium der platonischen Dialoge |
| PPP | The Pre-Platonic Philosophers |
| PTG | Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks |
| SE | Schopenhauer as Educator |
| SGT | Socrates and Greek Tragedy |
| ST | Socrates and Tragedy |
| TI | Twilight of the Idols, or How to Philosophize with a Hammer |
| TL | On Truth and Lying in a Non-moral Sense |
| UO | Unfashionable Observations |
| WB | Richard Wagner in Bayreuth |
| WPh | We Philologens |
| WS | The Wanderer and his Shadow |
| Z | Thus Spoke Zarathustra. A Book for All and None |