The page explains the required bibliography and citation style required for the courses taught by Dr. J. B. Owens, Professor of History, Idaho State University. The sole purpose of this page and all of the pages linked to it is to provide an orientation for those students enrolled in Dr. Owens' courses.

Style Sheet

This is a page to show you the style for the bibliography and notes for your online examination essays and for your papers.

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This style sheet is divided into separate sections to display the bibliographic forms to use for books, articles, articles in books, published documents, and electronic resources. In your bibliography, all items should be in alphabetical order by the first word used in your notes for that item, which will usually be the last name of an author or editor. The final section displays where various types of note should be located in the text. To jump to a particular section, click on its highlighted title below.

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Axton, M.

1977 The Queen's Two Bodies: Drama and the Elizabethan Succession. London: Royal Historical Society.

Benson, P. J.

1985 "Rule Virginia: Protestant Theories of Female Regiment in The Faerie Queene." English Literary Renaissance 15: 277-292.

1992 The Invention of the Renaissance Woman: The Challenge of Female Independence in the Literature and Thought of Italy and England. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.

Cassirer, E., P. O. Kristeller, and J. H. Randall, Jr. (eds.)

1948 The Renaissance Philosophy of Man. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Glamann, K.

1981 Dutch-Asiatic Trade, 1620-1740. 2nd edition. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.

Godinho, V. M.

1981-83 Os descobrimentos e a economia mundial. 4 volumes. 2nd edition. Lisbon: Editorial Presenca.

Hazard, P.

1952 The European Mind, 1680-1715 [French, 1935]. Trans. J. L. May. Cleveland and New York: World.

Nader, H.

1990 Liberty in Absolutist Spain: The Habsburg Sale of Towns, 1516-1700. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Owens, J. B.

1991 Review of Nader 1990. Sixteenth Century Journal 22,4: 871-872.

Phillips, W. D., Jr., and C. R. Phillips

1992 The Worlds of Christopher Columbus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Turchi, M.

1969 Ariosto o della liberazione fantastica. Ravenna: Longo Editore.

Benson, P. J.

1985 "Rule Virginia: Protestant Theories of Female Regiment in The Faerie Queene." English Literary Renaissance 15: 277-292.

1992 The Invention of the Renaissance Woman: The Challenge of Female Independence in the Literature and Thought of Italy and England. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.

Chittolini, G.

1994 "Cities, 'City-States,' and Regional States in North-Central Italy." Trans. W. Blockmans and C. Tilly. In Tilly and Blockmans, eds. (1994): 28-43.

1995 "The 'Private,' the 'Public,' the State" [Italian, 1994]. Trans. D. Bornstein. Journal of Modern History 67, suppl. (December): S34-S61.

Headley, J. H.

1997 "The Sixteenth-Century Venetian Celebration of the Earth's Total Habitability: The Issue of the Fully Habitable World for Renaissance Europe." Journal of World History 8,1 (Spring): 1-27.

Jardine, L.

1983 "Isotta Nogarola: Women Humanists--Education for what?" History of Education 12: 231-244.

Jordan, C.

1987a "Boccaccio's In-famous Women: Gender and Civic Virtue in the De mulieribus claris." In Levin and Watson, eds. (1987): 25-47.

1987b "Woman's Rule in Sixteenth-Century British Political Thought." Renaissance Quarterly 40: 421-451.

Levin, C., and J. Watson (eds.)

1987 Ambiguous Realities: Women in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.

Nader, H.

1990 Liberty in Absolutist Spain: The Habsburg Sale of Towns, 1516-1700. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Owens, J. B.

1991 Review of Nader 1990. Sixteenth Century Journal 22,4: 871-872.

[student surname], [student first and middle initials]

1993-09-IX Class notes on lecture "The Emergence of Christian Monasticism," Foundation of Western Civilization (J. B. Owens). [The use of such a lecture as the sole source of a piece of information should be avoided, as it is usually badly done. Hey, I didn't say that! If you cite someone else's class and distort his or her comments, you potentially damage that person's reputation.]

Tilly, C., and W. P. Blockmans (eds.)

1994 Cities and the Rise of States in Europe, A.D. 1000 to 1800. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.

Cassirer, E., P. O. Kristeller, and J. H. Randall, Jr. (eds.)

1948 The Renaissance Philosophy of Man. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Chittolini, G.

1994 "Cities, 'City-States,' and Regional States in North-Central Italy." Trans. W. Blockmans and C. Tilly. In Tilly and Blockmans, eds. (1994): 28-43.

1995 "The 'Private,' the 'Public,' the State" [Italian, 1994]. Trans. D. Bornstein. Journal of Modern History 67, suppl. (December): S34-S61.

Correia-Afonso, J.

1990 "Introduction." In M. Godinho (1990): xi-xxvi.

Jordan, C.

1987a "Boccaccio's In-famous Women: Gender and Civic Virtue in the De mulieribus claris." In Levin and Watson, eds. (1987): 25-47.

1987b "Woman's Rule in Sixteenth-Century British Political Thought." Renaissance Quarterly 40: 421-451.

Kristeller, P. O.

1980 "Learned Women of Early Modern Italy: Humanists and University Scholars." In Labalme, ed. (1980): 91-116.

Labalme, P. H. (ed.)

1980 Beyond Their Sex: Learned Women of the European Past. New York: New York University Press.

Levin, C., and J. Watson (eds.)

1987 Ambiguous Realities: Women in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.

Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni [1463-1494]

1948 "Oration on the dignity of Man" [Latin, 1486]. Trans. E. L. Forbes. In Cassirer et al, eds. (1948): 223-254.

Rabb, T. K., and S. Marshall

1993 Origins of the Modern West: Essays and Sources in Renaissance and Early Modern European History. New York: McGraw-Hill.

[student surname], [student first and middle initials]

1993-09-IX Class notes on lecture "The Emergence of Christian Monasticism," Foundation of Western Civilization (J. B. Owens). [The use of such a lecture as the sole source of a piece of information should be avoided, as it is usually badly done. Hey, I didn't say that! If you cite someone else's class and distort his or her comments, you potentially damage that person's reputation.]

Swabian Peasants [early 16th century]

1993 "The Twelve Articles of the Swabian Peasants (1525)." In Rabb and Marshall (1993): 134-137.

Tilly, C., and W. P. Blockmans (eds.)

1994 Cities and the Rise of States in Europe, A.D. 1000 to 1800. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.

Vives, Juan Luis [1492-1540]

1912 Instruction of a Christian Woman [Latin, 1523; English trans., 1529]. In Watson, ed. (1912): 29-136.

Watson, F. (ed.)

1912 Vives and the Renascence Education of Women. New York: Longmans, Green; London: Edward Arnold.

Cassirer, E., P. O. Kristeller, and J. H. Randall, Jr. (eds.)

1948 The Renaissance Philosophy of Man. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Correia-Afonso, J.

1990 "Introduction." In M. Godinho (1990): xi-xxvi.

Godinho, Manuel [17th century]

1990 Intrepid Itinerant: Manuel Godinho and his Journey from India to Portugal in 1663. Ed. and trans. J. Correia-Afonso. Bombay: Oxford University Press.

Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni [1463-1494]

1948 "Oration on the dignity of Man" [Latin, 1486]. Trans. E. L. Forbes. In Cassirer et al, eds. (1948): 223-254.

Rabb, T. K., and S. Marshall

1993 Origins of the Modern West: Essays and Sources in Renaissance and Early Modern European History. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Swabian Peasants [early 16th century]

1993 "The Twelve Articles of the Swabian Peasants (1525)." In Rabb and Marshall (1993): 134-137.

Vives, Juan Luis [1492-1540]

1912 Instruction of a Christian Woman [Latin, 1523; English trans., 1529]. In Watson, ed. (1912): 29-136.

Watson, F. (ed.)

1912 Vives and the Renascence Education of Women. New York: Longmans, Green; London: Edward Arnold.

The citation of Internet sources is a relatively new problem, and there are various methods of doing so. Melvin E. Page of East Tennessee State University has provided a number of suggestions for historians which can be easily adapted to the forms given below. See A Brief Citation Guide for Internet Sources in History and the Humanities. Also useful as a source of models for specialized problems is Citing Internet Addresses: A how-to guide for referencing online sources in student bibliographies, which is a service of Classroom Connect (designed specifically for K12 teachers). There are links to a number of citation guides, many using forms incompatible with the required style for this course but useful for other types of writing, provided by The Linguist List; see Citing On-line Sources.

Alex

gopher Alex (an index of on-line electronic texts). URL: [gopher://gopher.lib.ncsu.edu:70/11/library/stacks/Alex].

Bato'Ora Ballong-wen-Mewuda, J.

1996 "The Fortress of São Jorge da Mina: A Witness to the Presence of the Portuguese on the Coast of the Gulf of Guinea from the 15th to the 17th Centuries." Oceanos 28 (October/December) URL: [http://www.cncdp.pt/oceanos/n28/artigos/bwm/bwmi.html].

Ciolek, T. M.

2002 "Old World Traditional Trade Routes (OWTRAD) Project" [1999]. URL: [http://www.ciolek.com/owtrad.html].

Medieval Iberia Resources [inactive]

ftp "Medieval Iberian Resources" (maintained by John Dagenais of Northwestern University). URL: [ftp://ftp.acns.nwu.edu/pub/NUacademics/hispanic.studies/index.html].

O'Donnell, J. J.

2002 "James J. O'Donnell Home Page" [inactive]. URL: [http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/jod.html].

Owens, J. B.

1994-20-Xa Electronic message [thread: "Apostolic Tradition"] to RenCr list.

1994-20-Xb Electronic message [thread: "Calvin and Predestination"] to RenCr list.

1994-20-Xc Electronic message [private communication, re: project hypothesis].

1999-21-X Electronic message [thread: "choke-points"] to SpEmp list.

1999-23-X Electronic message [thread: "choke-points"] to SpEmp list.

Rabb, T. K., and S. Marshall

1993 Origins of the Modern West: Essays and Sources in Renaissance and Early Modern European History. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Renaissance

1993 The Renaissance: The Origins of the Modern West [PBS video telecourse]. Alexandria, Virginia: PBS Adult Learning Service.

Science Triumphant

1993 "Science Triumphant." Program 16 of Renaissance 1993.

[student surname], [student first and middle initials]

1993-09-IX Class notes on lecture "The Emergence of Christian Monasticism," Foundation of Western Civilization (J. B. Owens). [The use of such a lecture as the sole source of a piece of information should be avoided, as it is usually badly done. Hey, I didn't say that! If you cite someone else's class and distort his or her comments, you potentially damage that person's reputation.]

1994-19-X Electronic message [thread: "Apostolic Tradition"] to RenCr list.

In your work for this course, citations are to be placed within the text according to the instructions below. Footnotes or endnotes should be used sparingly for any statement so long that its insertion in the text would distract the reader.

• In this system, if you are referring to the entire work, the citation will look like this (Benson 1992). [Note: Do not separate the name and date with a comma.]

• If you are citing a specific section of the work, yourcitation will look like this (Benson 1992: 99) if you are citing a specific page; like this (Benson 1992: 101-109) if you are citing several pages; like this (Benson 1992: ch. 3) if you are citing a chapter; like this (Benson 1985; 1992) if you are citing several works by the same author; like this (Axton 1977; Benson 1992) if you are citing several sources.

• If you have used the author's name in a sentence so that that part of the citation is obvious, you need only place in the parentheses the date, page numbers, chapter number, or other required information.

• If you wish to indicate that the information in one of your paragraphs is drawn from a single source, you can mention the author's name in the topic sentence [e.g., "As Benson has pointed out...."] and then place the appropriate citation at the end of the final sentence: e.g. (1992: 139-148).

• If you have in your bibliography two writers with the same surname, distinguish between them by using an initial like this (M. Godinho 1990).

• If you are citing a direct quotation from a source, do it this way: "...the law is an extreme version of the double standard that existed in Ariosto's time..." (Benson 1992: 99).

• If the quotation is something quoted in your source, do it this way: "Since Lady Emilia does not want to tire herself by finding a game, it would be reasonable for all the other ladies to take part in this leisure and also be relieved of this task this evening" (Benson 1992: 78 [quoting Castiglione, Il Cortegiano]).

• If the quotation is long, it should be set off with indented left and right margins [without quotation marks unless they are part of what is being quoted]:

  The friars are attacked for writing their antifeminist sophistries in a style so rough that Capella hesitates to dignify it by the name of Latin, and other profeminist works are described as so badly written that no one but their authors will read them. This attack on the style of his opponents and competitors suggests that victory in this debate will be achieved by style; it does not suggest that the arguments presented will be definitive or even significant in themselves (Benson 1992: 67).

Further matters of importance

• Endnotes or footnotes should be reserved for comments that are longer than a few words and that you do not wish to include in the body of your essay. Whichever placement is used, such notes should be numbered consecutively throughout the essay.

• For citations from sources not mentioned in this style sheet (e.g., movies, interviews, personal letters written to you), send me an e-mail query about the citation forms to use.

• For an explanation of what must be cited, read the page on plagiarism.

Questions and comments about this style sheet should be sent to owenjack_ at _isu.edu, or if you wish, you may send a message now. Please include your name and e-mail address in the body of your message.

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J. B. Owens
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Revised: 7 January 2007

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