HSTEU401 INSTRUCTIONS ON PAPERS: FORMAT FOR
CITATIONS O'Neil
GENERAL
FORMAT:
Papers should
be typed, double spaced; no plastic or cardboard covers, just title page with
name, paper title, date, course.
The
basic purpose of scholarly citations is that any reader should be able to track
down your sources for direct quotes and for ideas or information taken from a
specific source. We know what books you are using, but complete citations
are required for each primary source.
The general rule about citations is to follow a consistent format,
including all relevant publication information.
You may follow any consistent format (historians use Turabian's Chicago
Manual of Style, but other systems are also OK).
Endnotes
and footnotes differ only in where they are located; footnotes are at the foot
of the page, while endnotes are at the end of the paper. Either is fine, though endnotes are generally
easier, unless your computer program makes footnotes just as easy. Also, note that endnotes do not need to be on
a separate page, so long as there is still room on your last page.
For
the first paper on Dati and Pitti, use the following simplified format, where a
complete citation is first given in a note, and later citations are indicated
by page numbers in parentheses. If you are using a different edition, give the
publication information for that edition as indicated above (City: Publisher,
date). For these
papers, OK to use either city or publisher or both.
For
the first citation of a work, give the complete reference, either in a footnote
(bottom of page) or an endnote (at end of paper), using a numbered note:
1 Gregorio
Dati, Diary, in Gene Brucker (ed), Two Memoirs of Renaissance Florence (Waveland
Press, 1991), pp. 107-141. For later
citations, (Dati, p. #)
If your essay draws on two or
more sources, you must give a full citation (like the one given above) the
first time you cite a given source, as follows:
2 Buonaccorso
Pitti, Diary, in Gene Brucker (ed), Two Memoirs of Renaissance Florence (Waveland
Press, 1991), pp. 19-106. For later
citations, (Pitti, P. #)
3 Gene
Brucker, Introduction: Florentine Diaries
and Diarists, Two Memoirs of Renaissance
4 Piero Veneziano, Bianco Alfani, in Lauro Martines (ed.) An Italian
Renaissance Sextent: Six Tales in Historical Context (
5 Lauro
Martines, The Wages of Social Sin, in An Italian Renaissance Sextent: Six
Tales in Historical Context (
If you are using handouts passed out in class, give a brief citation, such as:
6 HSTU401,
Class Handout on Florentine Guilds
FOR
REPEAT PAGE CITATIONS FROM A SOURCE ALREADY FOOTNOTED:
If
your essay draws on only one primary source, you can simply indicate page
numbers in parentheses after quotes or other citations, as follows: (p. 20)
When there is more than one
source, you should use the author or editor's last name, or a short version of
the author or title (for instance, Dati, Pitti, Brucker, Veneziano) to indicate
which of two or more sources you are citing, as follows: (Dati,
p. #) or
(Pitti, p. #)
Recommended
for purchase: Strunk and White, Elements
of Style: good, SHORT and