As for quotation of articles of the national history, while "Honcho Gatsuryo" compiled by Kinkata, Tadasuke's grandfather, uses direct quotations from "Rikkokushi" (Japan's six national histories chronicling the seventh and eighth centuries) such as "The Nihon Shoki" (the Chronicle of Japan), the Seiji yoryaku includes not only some quotations from Rikkokushi (the Six National Histories) but also some from "Ruiju-kokushi" (Classified National History) compiled by SUGAWARA no Michizane.
また、国史の記事の引用について、祖父公方が編纂した『本朝月令』が、直接『日本書紀』以下の六国史から引用しているのに対し、本書は、六国史からの引用と、菅原道真が編纂した『類聚国史』からの引用も見られる。