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

Zaumseil, Jana. “Applied Physics. Electronic Control of Circularly Polarized Light Emission.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 344, no. 6185 (May 16, 2014): 702–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kedar, Sharon, and Frank H. Webb. “Ocean Science. The Ocean’s Seismic Hum.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 307, no. 5710 (February 4, 2005): 682–83.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lohmann, Christian, Karen L. Myhr, and Rachel O. L. Wong. “Transmitter-Evoked Local Calcium Release Stabilizes Developing Dendrites.” Nature 418, no. 6894 (July 11, 2002): 177–81.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Vilà, C., J. A. Leonard, A. Gotherstrom, S. Marklund, K. Sandberg, K. Liden, R. K. Wayne, and H. Ellegren. “Widespread Origins of Domestic Horse Lineages.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 291, no. 5503 (January 19, 2001): 474–77.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chin, Wilson C. Resistivity Modeling. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016.

An edited book

FitzGerald, Duncan M., and Jasper Knight, eds. High Resolution Morphodynamics and Sedimentary Evolution of Estuaries. Vol. 8. Coastal Systems and Continental Margins. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, Fei, Yiqun Liu, Zhicheng Dou, Keyang Xu, Yujie Cao, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. “Revisiting the Evaluation of Diversified Search Evaluation Metrics with User Preferences.” In Information Retrieval Technology: 10th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2014, Kuching, Malaysia, December 3-5, 2014. Proceedings, edited by Azizah Jaafar, Nazlena Mohamad Ali, Shahrul Azman Mohd Noah, Alan F. Smeaton, Peter Bruza, Zainab Abu Bakar, Nursuriati Jamil, and Tengku Mohd Tengku Sembok, 48–59. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014.

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. “Bird Tree Of Life Shows ‘Explosive Evolution’: Studies.” IFLScience. IFLScience, December 12, 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bird-tree-life-shows-explosive-evolution-studies/.

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. “Transportation Infrastructure: Oversight of Rental Rates for Highway Construction Equipment Is Inadequate.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, June 25, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hayes, Unique Tiahara. “Mental Health Services for Foster Youth: A Grant Proposal.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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

Landler, Mark, Brad Plumer, and Linda Qiu. “A Long List of Economic Burdens, Bolstered by Dubious Data.” New York Times, June 2, 2017.

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