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

Buckingham, Steve. 2003. “Genomic Mergers.” Nature 425 (6954): 213.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kitagawa, Norimichi, and Shigeru Ichihara. 2002. “Hearing Visual Motion in Depth.” Nature 416 (6877): 172–174.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bradshaw, Darren, John E. Warren, and Matthew J. Rosseinsky. 2007. “Reversible Concerted Ligand Substitution at Alternating Metal Sites in an Extended Solid.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 315 (5814): 977–980.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ozsolak, Fatih, Adam R. Platt, Dan R. Jones, Jeffrey G. Reifenberger, Lauryn E. Sass, Peter McInerney, John F. Thompson, Jayson Bowers, Mirna Jarosz, and Patrice M. Milos. 2009. “Direct RNA Sequencing.” Nature 461 (7265): 814–818.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Unmehopa, Musa, Kumar Vemuri, and Andy Bennett. 2006. Parlay/OSA. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Miescke, Klaus-J. 2008. Statistical Decision Theory: Estimation, Testing, and Selection. Edited by F. Liese. Springer Series in Statistics. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ho, Connie Y. Y., and Winnie W. S. Mak. 2013. “HIV-Related Stigma Across Cultures: Adding Family into the Equation.” In Stigma, Discrimination and Living with HIV/AIDS: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, edited by Pranee Liamputtong, 53–69. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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, Danielle. 2016. “How Pharmaceutical Companies Profit From Drugs For Rare Diseases.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-pharmaceutical-companies-profit-from-drugs-for-rare-diseases/.

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. 1987. Compensatory Education: Chapter 1’s Comparability of Services Provision. HRD-87-102. 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

Torres, Carolyn. 2013. “Grassroots in Santa Ana: Identity and Conceptualizing Community.” 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

Pilon, Mary. 2014. “Tennessee Set to Drop Tax.” New York Times, April 8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buckingham 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Buckingham 2003; Kitagawa and Ichihara 2002).

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

Two authors: (Kitagawa and Ichihara 2002)
Three authors: (Bradshaw, Warren, and Rosseinsky 2007)
4 or more authors: (Ozsolak et al. 2009)

About the journal

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