How to format your references using the Journal of Modern Italian Studies citation style

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

Powell, Kendall. 2004. “The Yeast Is Rising.” Nature 429 (6988): 224–225.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schlegel, Thomas, and Stefan Schuster. 2008. “Small Circuits for Large Tasks: High-Speed Decision-Making in Archerfish.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 319 (5859): 104–106.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bolmatov, Dima, Edvard T. Musaev, and K. Trachenko. 2013. “Symmetry Breaking Gives Rise to Energy Spectra of Three States of Matter.” Scientific Reports 3 (September): 2794.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Saveliev, Alexander, Christopher Everett, Tammy Sharpe, Zoë Webster, and Richard Festenstein. 2003. “DNA Triplet Repeats Mediate Heterochromatin-Protein-1-Sensitive Variegated Gene Silencing.” Nature 422 (6934): 909–913.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davies, Joshua. 2010. Implementing SSL/TLS Using Cryptography and PKI. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Koch-Nolte, Friedrich, ed. 2015. Endogenous ADP-Ribosylation. Vol. 384. Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Vistulo de Abreu, F., E. N. M. Nolte‘Hoen, C. R. Almeida, and D. M. Davis. 2006. “Cellular Frustration: A New Conceptual Framework for Understanding Cell-Mediated Immune Responses.” In Artificial Immune Systems: 5th International Conference, ICARIS 2006, Oeiras, Portugal, September 4-6, 2006. Proceedings, edited by Hugues Bersini and Jorge Carneiro, 37–51. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Journal of Modern Italian Studies.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2016. “Three-Quarters Of Endangered Species Are Threatened Through Overexploitation By Humans.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/threequarters-of-endangered-species-are-threatened-through-overexploitation-by-humans/.

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. 1980. Requirements for Recurring Reports to the Congress. PAD-80-49. 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

Lee, Amye Mae. 2010. “Examining the Socially Responsible Leadership Development Outcomes of Study Abroad Experiences for College Seniors.” Doctoral dissertation, College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Gillis, Justin. 2017. “For Third Year, the Earth in 2016 Set Heat Record.” New York Times, January 18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Powell 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Powell 2004; Schlegel and Schuster 2008).

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

Two authors: (Schlegel and Schuster 2008)
Three authors: (Bolmatov, Musaev, and Trachenko 2013)
4 or more authors: (Saveliev et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Modern Italian Studies
Abbreviation	J. Mod. Ital. Stud.
ISSN (print)	1354-571X
ISSN (online)	1469-9583
Scope	History Sociology and Political Science Cultural Studies Political Science and International Relations