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

Agrawal, Aneil F. 2015. “Evolutionary Biology: Infection Elevates Diversity.” Nature 525 (7570): 464–465.

A journal article with 2 authors

Guarente, L., and C. Kenyon. 2000. “Genetic Pathways That Regulate Ageing in Model Organisms.” Nature 408 (6809): 255–262.

A journal article with 3 authors

Politi, Alberto, Jonathan C. F. Matthews, and Jeremy L. O’Brien. 2009. “Shor’s Quantum Factoring Algorithm on a Photonic Chip.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 325 (5945): 1221.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kunishima, N., Y. Shimada, Y. Tsuji, T. Sato, M. Yamamoto, T. Kumasaka, S. Nakanishi, H. Jingami, and K. Morikawa. 2000. “Structural Basis of Glutamate Recognition by a Dimeric Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor.” Nature 407 (6807): 971–977.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Böhmer, Estella. 2015. Dentistry in Rabbits and Rodents. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Castro, Félix, Alexander Gelbukh, and Miguel González, eds. 2013. Advances in Soft Computing and Its Applications: 12th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2013, Mexico City, Mexico, November 24-30, 2013, Proceedings, Part II. Vol. 8266. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Better, Alison. 2016. “The Political Is Personal: Public Sociology and Social Change Through Community Engagement.” In Civic Engagement Pedagogy in the Community College: Theory and Practice, edited by Emily Schnee, Alison Better, and Martha Clark Cummings, 53–69. Education, Equity, Economy. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Show Us Your Smarts: A Very Brief History Of Intelligence Testing.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/show-us-your-smarts-very-brief-history-intelligence-testing/.

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. 1999. Aviation: Issues Associated With the Theft of Stock Used to Create Airline Tickets. RCED-99-219. 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

Gonzales, Rachel Ann. 2010. “Health Care Team Effectiveness: The Relationship between Team Task Interdependence and Group Emotional Competence.” Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Qiu, Linda. 2017. “‘Thousands’ of Jobs? And for Whom?” New York Times, June 2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Agrawal 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Agrawal 2015; Guarente and Kenyon 2000).

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

Two authors: (Guarente and Kenyon 2000)
Three authors: (Politi, Matthews, and O’Brien 2009)
4 or more authors: (Kunishima et al. 2000)

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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