How to format your references using the Italian Economic Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Italian Economic Journal. 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

Howard K (2003) The view from the top. Nature 426:696–697

A journal article with 2 authors

Day M, Morris RG (2001) Memory consolidation and NMDA receptors: discrepancy between genetic and pharmacological approaches. Science 293:755

A journal article with 3 authors

Hamano K, Abe Y, Genda H (2013) Emergence of two types of terrestrial planet on solidification of magma ocean. Nature 497:607–610

A journal article with 5 or more authors

You JQ, Wang ZD, Zhang W, Nori F (2014) Encoding a qubit with Majorana modes in superconducting circuits. Sci Rep 4:5535

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smilansky S (2007) 10 Moral Paradoxes. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Kappler M, Sachs A (eds) (2013) Business Cycle Synchronisation and Economic Integration: New Evidence from the EU. Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Leung AM, Brent GA (2016) The Influence of Thyroid Hormone on Growth Hormone Secretion and Action. In: Cohen LE (ed) Growth Hormone Deficiency: Physiology and Clinical Management. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 29–46

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 Italian Economic Journal.

Blog post

Fang J (2014) How to Hear Through Soundproof Glass With A Potato Chip Bag. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-hear-through-soundproof-glass-potato-chip-bag/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1990) Truck Safety: Need to Better Ensure Correction of Serious Inspection Violations. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fu J (2013) Tartuffe Lab: A developing work. Doctoral dissertation, 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

(nyt) SK (2004) World Briefing | Europe: Russia: After Attack, Syria Is Said To Stop Sending Students. New York Times A12

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Howard 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Day and Morris 2001; Howard 2003).

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

Two authors: (Day and Morris 2001)
Three or more authors: (You et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Italian Economic Journal
Abbreviation	Ital. Econ. J.
ISSN (print)	2199-322X
ISSN (online)	2199-3238
Scope