A Note on Citations and Referencing
The method of referencing employed throughout this book is the author-date (Harvard) system reduced to its core essentials. The method aims to economise on space devoted to footnotes by reducing to a minimum bibliographical information presented there. Bibliographical details are provided in full in the Bibliography, and so unnecessary duplication is avoided. The methodâs effectiveness depends upon concision, consistency, and strict correlation between the data presented in the Bibliography and the basic identifiers provided in the footnotes. As far as possible, punctuation marks such as parentheses and abbreviations such as âpp.â and âvol.â are discarded from footnoted references. Sources are identified there by authorâs or editorâs surname followed by date of publication, the same sequence as in the Bibliography entries. In the footnotes the date is followed, as appropriate, by page-numbers separated from it by means of a comma, or by a volume number followed by a colon and then the page-number(s). Cross-reference to the Bibliography discloses authorsâ initials or forename, titles of works, places of publication, and publishers. For example
Chrisman 1967, 86
signifies the specified page in
Chrisman, Miriam Usher. 1967. Strasbourg and the Reform: a study in the process of change. New Haven Ct: Yale University Press.
In cases of papers in periodicals the punctuation in the Bibliography differs slightly, the periodicalâs name being followed by the relevant volume and part number separated by a diagonal stroke, then by a colon and finally by the paperâs entire page-range. Thus
Pannier 1940, 149
signifies the specified page in
Pannier, Jacques. 1940. âHotman en Suisse (1547â1590)â. Zwingliana, 7/3: 137â172.
Except where otherwise stated, ancient Greek and Latin sources are cited from the well-established editions in the Loeb series, with the important exception of Aristotleâs works. For these the source is the Revised Oxford Translation of The Complete Works of Aristotle edited in two volumes by Jonathan Barnes (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press 1984), and cited here by Bekker numbers (for example, Nicomachean Ethics 1099b25â1100b21).
For Roman laws the basic source for the Latin text of the Code, Digest and Novels is the edition by Theodor Mommsen and Paul Krueger, now accessible as part of The Roman Law Library compiled by Yves Lassard and A. Koptev (