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

Kearns, Daniel B. 2007. “Microbiology. Bright Insight into Bacterial Gliding.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 315 (5813): 773–774.

A journal article with 2 authors

Strausfeld, Nicholas J., and Frank Hirth. 2013. “Deep Homology of Arthropod Central Complex and Vertebrate Basal Ganglia.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 340 (6129): 157–161.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pelkmans, Lucas, Daniel Püntener, and Ari Helenius. 2002. “Local Actin Polymerization and Dynamin Recruitment in SV40-Induced Internalization of Caveolae.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 296 (5567): 535–539.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Mogera, Umesha, Abhay A. Sagade, Subi J. George, and Giridhar U. Kulkarni. 2014. “Ultrafast Response Humidity Sensor Using Supramolecular Nanofibre and Its Application in Monitoring Breath Humidity and Flow.” Scientific Reports 4 (February): 4103.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zigangirov, Kamil Sh. 2004. Theory of Code Division Multiple Access Communication. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Washio, Takashi, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Joshua Zhexue Huang, Xiaohua Hu, Jinyan Li, Chao Xie, Jieyue He, Deqing Zou, Kuan-Ching Li, and Mário M. Freire, eds. 2007. Emerging Technologies in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: PAKDD 2007 International Workshops Nanjing, China, May 22-25, 2007 Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 4819. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Jiang, Wei, Jie Zhu, Jiajie Xu, Zhixu Li, Pengpeng Zhao, and Lei Zhao. 2015. “HV: A Feature Based Method for Trajectory Dataset Profiling.” In Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2015: 16th International Conference, Miami, FL, USA, November 1-3, 2015, Proceedings, Part I, edited by Jianyong Wang, Wojciech Cellary, Dingding Wang, Hua Wang, Shu-Ching Chen, Tao Li, and Yanchun Zhang, 46–60. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 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 Journal of Modern Italian Studies.

Blog post

Luntz, Stephen. 2014. “The Oldest Organisms In The World.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 2014. Federal Retirement Processing: Applying Information Technology Acquisition Best Practices Could Help OPM Overcome a Long History of Unsuccessful Modernization Efforts. GAO-15-277T. 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

Scharf, Mark T. 2015. “Comparing Student Cumulative Course Grades, Attrition, and Satisfaction in Traditional and Virtual Classroom Environments.” Doctoral dissertation, Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral University.

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

Wagner, James. 2016. “Mets Fall Again, and Bruce Is Pulled During Rally.” New York Times, September 21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kearns 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Kearns 2007; Strausfeld and Hirth 2013).

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

Two authors: (Strausfeld and Hirth 2013)
Three authors: (Pelkmans, Püntener, and Helenius 2002)
4 or more authors: (Mogera et al. 2014)

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