FOOTNOTES

Please keep the footnotes brief. They should be numbered consecutively throughout the paper. Please place footnote numbers at the end of sentences, after punctuation.

Bibliographic information should always be given in full at the first citation (particularly as concerns the author’s full name). However, all following bibliographic references should be shortened. The short form, as distinct from an abbreviation, should include enough information to remind readers of the full title or to lead them to the appropriate entry in the bibliography (References). Include page numbers when appropriate, after a comma.

 Book source

Name Surname, Title of the book (Place: Publisher, year), 00.

Massimo Bucciantini, Michele Camerota, Franco Giudice, Il telescopio di Galileo: una storia europea (Torino: G. Einaudi, 2012), 210.

Short form:

Author’s Last Name, Shortened Title, 00.

Bucciantini, Camerota, Giudice, Il telescopio di Galileo, 210.

Other examples:

Anna Marie Roos and Gideon Manning, eds., Collected wisdom of the early modern scholar: essays in honor of Mordechai Feingold (Cham: Springer, 2023).

Paolo Galluzzi, The lynx and the telescope: the parallel worlds of Cesi and Galileo, trans. Peter Mason (Leiden: Brill, 2017)

Marcello Malpighi, The correspondence of Marcello Malpighi, ed. Howard B. Adelmann, vol. 4, 1689-1892 (Ithaca; London: Cornell University Press, 1975).

Aristotle, Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, ed. by Jonathan Barnes. 2 vols. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983).

Edizione Nazionale Opere di Galileo

References to texts by Galileo published in the Edizione Nazionale delle Opere, edited by Antonio Favaro, should be cited using the abbreviation OG, followed by the indication of the volume in Roman numerals and of the pages in Arabic numerals. 

Example:

OG, XV, 32-33.

Chapter in edited book

Name Surname, “The Title of the Chapter”, in The Title of the Book, ed. by name of the editor (Place: Publisher, 2022), 1–20.

Enrico Giannetto, “The Platonization of Galileo's physics and cosmology: from Henry More and Isaac Newton to Husserl and Koyré”, in The science and myth of Galileo between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries in Europe: proceedings of the International conference: Florence, Museo Galileo, 29-30 January 2020, ed. by Massimo Bucciantini (Firenze: L.S. Olschki, 2021), 425-437.

Short form: 

Giannetto, “The Platonization of Galileo's physics and cosmology”, 425-437.

Article source

Name Surname, “The title of the Journal Article”, Journal Title volume, number (year): 00-01

Miguel A. Granada, “Johannes Kepler: the Sun as the heart of the world”, Journal for the history of astronomy 53 (2022): 133-140.

Short form:

Granada, “Johannes Kepler”, 133-140.

Weekly or monthly (or bimonthly) magazines, even if numbered by volume and issue, are usually cited by date only.

For magazine articles consulted online, include a URL (or DOl, if available) at the end of a citation

Rebecca Mead, “Isn't It Romantic?”, New Yorker, 21 July 2008, <http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2008/07/21/080721ta_talk_mead>.

Dissertation

Name Surname, “Title” (PhD diss., University, year), 00-04.

Ivan Malara, “Galileo, creation and cosmogony: a study on the interplay between Galileo's science of motion and the creation theme” (PhD diss., Università degli studi di Milano, 2021), 00-04.

Short form:

Malara, “Galileo, creation and cosmogony”, 00-04.

Archival source

Name of the Institution owning the ms, shelfmark, Author, Title (date), page or folio.

British Library, Ms. Harley 7014, ff. 221r-222v.

BL, Ms. Harley 7014, ff. 221r-222v.

Quotations

Quoted text may be run in to the main text and enclosed in “quotation marks”. A hundred words or more can generally be set off as a block quotation, which is not enclosed in quotation marks, and always start a new line. It is further distinguished from the surrounding text by being indented (from the left), separated from the main text by a double space, and set in smaller type. All foreign-language quotations shall be translated into the language of the article. Based on what is more relevant to the topic, the original text or its translation can be provided in a footnote.

Punctuation

Punctuation follows quotation marks, e.g., “punctuation follows quotation marks”; unless it is part of the quoted text itself.

Do not use em-dash —

Use en-dash – for parenthetical sentences

Use hyphens to join two extremes of an interval: page interval, dates, years, etc…: 1975-2016; 7-9 March 2021; 142-148.

Do not abridge page intervals: 1442-1448; not 1442-8

Single quotation marks (‘ ’) should be used to lend particular emphasis to a term or expression.

Figures

All figures must be cited consecutively in the text. Figures should be submitted as separate source files in .tif, .jpg, .png or .eps format, and specifically not in Word or Excel. The files should have a resolution of at least 300 dpi at a width of 13cm. The text in a figure must be legible, and should not be smaller than point 7. The size of this lettering for any text in a figure or in graphs/charts should be the same for all figures in the manuscript.

Clearly mark in the text where each illustration needs to be inserted (e.g. [Fig. 1]). This will be an approximate location as exact placement can only be determined at the time of typesetting. Make sure that the illustrations are clearly numbered and that the same number is used in the text and in a list of illustrations.

Always provide captions for your illustrations at the end of the manuscript. Source information or copyright credits should only be mentioned in the captions themselves. Please be sure that any illustrative materials that are not your own (whether re-drawn or not) is under the Public Domain or a CC 4.0-compatible license. When using photos, maps, figures, or other images, it is important to ascertain whether or not copyright subsists in them; whether your use of them falls under an exception to the copyright rules; who the copyright owner is; how to make your permission request. Please do contact the journal editorial staff for further clarification on this.

Abbreviations

Cf. = compare to

et al. = and others; can be used in footnotes for works by multiple authors and in bibliographic entries for works with more than three authors (see example above).

etc. = et cætera

f./ ff. = folio

fig. = figure

Ibidem / Ibid.

Id. / Ead. = same author; can be used when multiple works by the same author(s) are referred to subsequently

Infra = this work, subsequent page(s)

misc. = miscellaneous

MS / MSS = manuscript(s)

n. = note

r = recto

tab. = table

trans. = translation / translated by

v = verso

vol. / vols. = volume

 

REFERENCES

In some cases, it may be appropriate to subdivide a bibliography into sections:

{1} when it includes manuscript sources, archival collections, or other materials that do not fit into a straight alphabetical list; in this case, a "Manuscript sources, archival collections, and unpublished materials" (or similar) subhead should appear. References to OG (see above) ad ad hoc abbreviations should be listed here;
{2} when readers need to see at a glance the distinction between different kinds of works - for example, in a study of one author, between works by the author and those about them; in this case, the sections should be introduced by an explanatory subhead (e.g.: "Cited works by Leibniz" and "Other works cited").