How to format your references using the The Seventeenth Century citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Seventeenth Century. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Nichols, David. “Legal Highs: The Dark Side of Medicinal Chemistry.” Nature 469, no. 7328 (January 6, 2011): 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cao, Wenxiang, and Enrique M. De La Cruz. “Quantitative Full Time Course Analysis of Nonlinear Enzyme Cycling Kinetics.” Scientific Reports 3 (2013): 2658.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kurtovic, Amina, Alexandre Widmer, and Barry J. Dickson. “A Single Class of Olfactory Neurons Mediates Behavioural Responses to a Drosophila Sex Pheromone.” Nature 446, no. 7135 (March 29, 2007): 542–46.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Peñuelas, Josep, Gerard Farré-Armengol, Joan Llusia, Albert Gargallo-Garriga, Laura Rico, Jordi Sardans, Jaume Terradas, and Iolanda Filella. “Removal of Floral Microbiota Reduces Floral Terpene Emissions.” Scientific Reports 4 (October 22, 2014): 6727.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Di Stefano, Michael. Distributed Data Management for Grid Computing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005.

An edited book

Härdle, Wolfgang. Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis. Edited by Léopold Simar. Second Edition. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Alt, Helmut, Hans Bodlaender, Marc van Kreveld, Günter Rote, and Gerard Tel. “Wooden Geometric Puzzles: Design and Hardness Proofs.” In Fun with Algorithms: 4th International Conference, FUN 2007, Castiglioncello, Italy, June 3-5, 2007. Proceedings, edited by Pierluigi Crescenzi, Giuseppe Prencipe, and Geppino Pucci, 16–29. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2007.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for The Seventeenth Century.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. “Japan Banned From Antarctic Whaling.” IFLScience. IFLScience, March 31, 2014.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. “Trucking Transportation: Information on Handling of Undercharge Claims.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, August 30, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Zhao, Lihong. “Modeling, Estimation and Approximation in Structured Models.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2017.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Saslow, Linda. “From Restaurant Fryers, A Petroleum Alternative.” New York Times, November 4, 2007.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	The Seventeenth Century
Abbreviation	Seventeenth Century
ISSN (print)	0268-117X
ISSN (online)	2050-4616
Scope	History Cultural Studies