The Burlington has its own house style. Commissioned writers and those submitting articles to the Magazine can find examples of our referencing system below. Please note that our footnotes are used for referencing purposes and do not include discursive notes or asides.

Books

first reference:

• A. Dézallier d'Argenville:Abrégé de la vie des plus fameux peintres, Paris 1745–52, II, pp.105–07.
• G. Vasari:Le vite de' piú eccellenti pittori, scultori ed architettori, ed. G. Milanesi, Florence 1878–85, III, p.57.

subsequent references:

• Dézallier d'Argenville, op. cit. (note 3), p.157.
• Vasari, op. cit. (note 6), p.32

Articles

first reference:

• E. Harris: 'Velázquez and Murillo in nineteenth-century Britain: an approach through prints',Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes50 (1987), pp.148–63.

subsequent references:

• Harris, op. cit. (note 5), p.151.

Exhibition catalogues

first reference:

• W.B. Jordan: exh. cat. Spanish Still Life in the Golden Age, Fort Worth (Kimbell Art Museum) and Toledo OH (Toledo Museum of Art) 1985, p.105.
• S. Ebert-Schifferer et al., eds.: exh. cat. Guido Reni e l'Europa, Frankfurt (Schirn Kunsthalle) 1988–89, p.233, no.A36.

subsequent references:

• Jordan, op. cit. (note 4), p.32.
• Ebert-Schifferer, op. cit. (note 9), p.12.

Academic theses

first reference:

• I. Rose-de Viejo: 'Manuel Godoy: Patrón de las artes y coleccionista', unpublished Ph.D. diss. (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1983), III, p.37.

subsequent references:

• Rose-de Viejo,op. cit.(note 3), II, p.543.

Archival documents

first reference:

• Rome, Archivio di Stato, Archivio Spada, vol.454, fols.463r–501v.

subsequent references:

• Document cited at note 7 above, fol.466r.

When documents from the same archive are cited frequently, abbreviations should be used, with an indication in the first reference:

• Sansepolcro, Biblioteca comunale (cited hereafter as BCS).