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

Strom, Suzanne L. “Microbial Ecology of Ocean Biogeochemistry: A Community Perspective.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 320, no. 5879 (May 23, 2008): 1043–45.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zehr, Jonathan P., and Raphael M. Kudela. “Ocean Science. Photosynthesis in the Open Ocean.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 326, no. 5955 (November 13, 2009): 945–46.

A journal article with 3 authors

Linnartz, H., D. Verdes, and J. P. Maier. “Rotationally Resolved Infrared Spectrum of the Charge Transfer Complex [Ar-N2]+.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 297, no. 5584 (August 16, 2002): 1166–67.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Tse, Dorothy, Rosamund F. Langston, Masaki Kakeyama, Ingrid Bethus, Patrick A. Spooner, Emma R. Wood, Menno P. Witter, and Richard G. M. Morris. “Schemas and Memory Consolidation.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 316, no. 5821 (April 6, 2007): 76–82.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lader, Ellis W. Field Guide to the Arrhythmias. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2013.

An edited book

Reich, Simeon. Genericity in Nonlinear Analysis. Edited by Alexander J. Zaslavski. Vol. 34. Developments in Mathematics. New York, NY: Springer, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Beccuti, Marco, Giuliana Franceschinis, Mohamed Kaâniche, and Karama Kanoun. “Multi-Level Dependability Modeling of Interdependencies between the Electricity and Information Infrastructures.” In Critical Information Infrastructure Security: Third International Workshop, CRITIS 2008, Rome, Italy, October13-15, 2008. Revised Papers, edited by Roberto Setola and Stefan Geretshuber, 48–59. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009.

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

Fang, Janet. “Squirrel Virus Suspected in the Deaths of Three People in Germany.” IFLScience. IFLScience, July 10, 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/squirrel-virus-suspected-deaths-three-people-germany/.

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. “Computers in Government: We Couldn’t Do Without Them.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, June 1, 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Teeter, Corinne Michelle. “Characterizing the Spatial Density Functions of Neural Arbors.” Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, 2010.

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

(nyt), Sophia Kishkovsky. “World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Rebels Avenge A Leader’s Death.” New York Times, May 16, 2002.

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