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Citaion Style Guide

This document provides a comprehensive guide to the citation styles required for thinkers covered in the POL200 course on visions of a just and good society. It outlines the proper in-text and footnote citation formats for works by Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Locke, including whether parts of the citation should be italicized. Guidance is also given on abbreviating citations after the first use and using ibidem to indicate the same source is being cited consecutively. The document concludes with instructions on formatting bibliography entries in Chicago style.

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Citaion Style Guide

This document provides a comprehensive guide to the citation styles required for thinkers covered in the POL200 course on visions of a just and good society. It outlines the proper in-text and footnote citation formats for works by Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Locke, including whether parts of the citation should be italicized. Guidance is also given on abbreviating citations after the first use and using ibidem to indicate the same source is being cited consecutively. The document concludes with instructions on formatting bibliography entries in Chicago style.

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Citation Style Guide for POL200- Visions of a Just and Good Society

As you may know, thinkers in the Western cannon has their own special citation style. Here are
examples of the in text or footnote citation styles that you must use for Machiavelli and Hobbes.
Here is a comprehensive guide for the thinkers in this class. Pay attention to when parts of the
citation are in italics and when they are not.

Plato

(Dialogue Book Number Stephanos numbers and letters) or, (Republic IV 428a-b).

Note: for Plato you can also abbreviate the dialogue, so Republic becomes Rep. You can also
drop the book number if you want, many scholars do in the citation. Although you might want to
reference it in the text if the placement of the argument in the dialogue is significant to your
analysis.

Aristotle

There are also number on the side of the text in Aristotle’s works, however, here they are called
Bekker numbers, named after Bekker who initially translated the texts and used this system. A
citation looks like this:

(Text, Book Number, Chapter, Bekker number), or (The Politics, Bk. IV, Ch. 3 1990a10-15).

Citations can similarly be shortened to (Pol. 1290a10-15). You will not that the sections between
a-b in each Bekker number are numbered 1-40 in increments of 10. These numbers represent a
line in each section in the original Greek, and so are not equally distributed in the English
translations. For example, lines 5-10 might span six or seven lines of texts. Be sure to include
these numbers, estimating the numbers that correspond to the passage you are referencing when
the line number is not clear.

Machiavelli

(Text Ch. VI) Or, (The Prince Ch. VI).

Note: No page number or paragraph needed. After the first citation of The Prince, each
subsequent citation can simply be (Ch. VI).

Hobbes

(Text, Part Chapter, Paragraph) or (Leviathan, I v, 17) or (Leviathan, Letter Dedicatory) or


(Leviathan, The Introduction).

Note: After the first long form entry, you can then shorten the citation to (Lev. v, 17). Note, here
that I have dropped the part, and just references the chapter and the paragraph. If you were
changing from a series of citations of Part I, and then citing part II or III you would have to
include that change in the citation that moves from part I to part II.

From the desk of Kelsey Gordon, 2022


Citation Style Guide for POL200- Visions of a Just and Good Society

Locke

(Text, Chapter § Paragraph), or (Second Treatise, II §4)

Note: for Locke, we include the paragraph/section symbol which is § and can be found under
“Insert -> Advanced symbol” in Word. After your first citation of the Second Treatise, you can
and should abbreviate your citation to ST. Used ibid. as appropriate.

Ibidem

If you are citing in a continuous series and each citation is in the same place use ibidem, which
is Latin for “in the same place”. A citation looks like this: (Ibid.). You may also use ibidem for
partial citations, so if you are citing Harvey 2021 in a continuous series but on different pages
you can include ibidem instead of the author date portion of the citation. For example, (Ibid., 20),
(Ibid., 37). You can similarly use ibidem for abbreviating citations for thinkers in this course.
Note, that ibidem can only be used in a continuous series. As soon as you disrupt the series of
citations with a different source you have to give the complete citation before using ibidem
again.

Notes on Bibliography

Bibliography entry must be in Chicago Style, which annoyingly changed their formatting in the
last couple years. Actually, this way is a bit better, but I do wish they would settle on something.
Here is it, for example, used to cite some other texts. Note the hanging indent on the second line,
the use of punctuation and italics. A bibliography will look like this:

Bibliography

Aristotle. 2002. Nicomachean Ethics. Translation by J.A.K. Thomson. London: Penguin Books.

Aquinas, St. Thomas. 1991. Summa Theologiae: A Concise Translation. Edited by Timothy
McDermott. Illinois: Thomas More Press.

Machiavelli, Niccolò. 1981. Mandragola. Translation, Introduction, and Notes by Mera J.


Flaumenhaft. Long Grove: Waveland Press, Inc.

Machiavelli, Niccolò. 1996. Clizia. Translation and Notes by Danial T. Gallagher and
Introduction by Robert K. Faulkner. Long Grove: Waveland Press.

Pro tip: you can check your bibliography references against the syllabus, and sometimes even
copy paste that entry.

From the desk of Kelsey Gordon, 2022

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