How to format your references using the Contemporary Italian Politics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Contemporary Italian Politics. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Chi, Kelly Rae. 2015. “Masculinity: Men’s Makeover.” Nature 526 (7572): S12-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shizgal, Peter, and Andreas Arvanitogiannis. 2003. “Neuroscience. Gambling on Dopamine.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 299 (5614): 1856–1858.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brook, Barry W., Navjot S. Sodhi, and Peter K. L. Ng. 2003. “Catastrophic Extinctions Follow Deforestation in Singapore.” Nature 424 (6947): 420–426.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hu, S., F. S. Chapin 3rd, M. K. Firestone, C. B. Field, and N. R. Chiariello. 2001. “Nitrogen Limitation of Microbial Decomposition in a Grassland under Elevated CO2.” Nature 409 (6817): 188–191.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Chan, N. H., and H. Y. Wong. 2013. Handbook of Financial Risk Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Eggins, Heather, ed. 2014. Drivers and Barriers to Achieving Quality in Higher Education. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Zimberg, Stephen E. 2014. “Laparoscopic Total and Supracervical Hysterectomy.” In Atlas of Single-Port, Laparoscopic, and Robotic Surgery: A Practical Approach in Gynecology, edited by Pedro F. Escobar and Tommaso Falcone, 43–58. New York, NY: Springer.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Contemporary Italian Politics.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2015. “Doctors Announce World’s First Successful Penis Transplant.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/doctors-announce-worlds-first-successful-penis-transplant/.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. 2008. National Airspace System: DOT and FAA Actions Will Likely Have a Limited Effect on Reducing Delays during Summer 2008 Travel Season. GAO-08-934T. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Coleman, Jason M. 2012. “Classroom Management: Whose Responsibility Is It?” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Smith, Mitch, Monica Davey, and Alan Blinder. 2016. “Random Shots on a Deadly Night for Kalamazoo.” New York Times, February 21.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Chi 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Chi 2015; Shizgal and Arvanitogiannis 2003).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Shizgal and Arvanitogiannis 2003)
Three authors: (Brook, Sodhi, and Ng 2003)
4 or more authors: (Hu et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Contemporary Italian Politics
Abbreviation	Contemp. Ital. Polit.
ISSN (print)	2324-8823
ISSN (online)	2324-8831
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