Style Request: British Journal for the History of Science

Hello,

I've tried editing the style myself, but I am very new to this and previously did everything by hand. I need a style matching the citation guidelines for the British Journal for the History of Science, which seems to be an altered version of Chicago with op cit and numbers referring back to the initial citation.

It would be so appreciated if you could help. Here's the description:

Cite as follows:

1 Boris Smetov and Dmitri Blogski, Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century, 2nd edn (tr. Robert Roe), 5 vols., Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1886–1914, vol. 3, p. iii, pp. 237–8.

Note: if a book title has a sub-title there should be a colon separating both.

2 John Doe, ‘Searching for gravity waves’, in Andrew Burn and Zigmund Trent (eds.), The History of Physics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982, pp. 22–4.

Note: book titles have all words capitalized but for article titles only the first word is capitalized. The names of disciplines e.g. biology, are not capitalized in article titles. Note that publishing details are not in brackets.

3 Doe, op. cit. (2), pp. 114-17. Always use ‘op. cit.’ to refer to previously cited references. Do not use ‘ibid’.

4 Nicodemus Brown, ‘Developments of the cathode ray’, Journal of Physics (1972) 7 (2), pp. 20-31, 28.

Spell out journal titles. Give complete page run of articles cited and, where appropriate, the page number to which the citation refers.

5 John Herschel to George Peacock, 17 May 1836, Herschel Papers, Royal Astronomical Society, London (subsequently HP), Box 1234, 56.

Please add semi-colons between citations.

Two or more initials should not have a space between them. E.g. S.R.E. Werrett.

Citing websites:

Name of author, ‘Title’, Journal (date – day, month, year) issue number, http…, accessed [12 May 2019].

For manuscript sources please supply whatever information is necessary for the reference to be found. Subsequent references can be cited by name, date, abbreviated source, box, page or folio number.
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