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

Binder, P-M. 2008. “Mathematics. Frustration in Complexity.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 320 (5874): 322–323.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shizgal, Peter, and Andreas Arvanitogiannis. 2003. “Neuroscience. Gambling on Dopamine.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 299 (5614): 1856–1858.

A journal article with 3 authors

Perlo, Juan, Federico Casanova, and Bernhard Blümich. 2007. “Ex Situ NMR in Highly Homogeneous Fields: 1H Spectroscopy.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 315 (5815): 1110–1112.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Mair, William, Patrick Goymer, Scott D. Pletcher, and Linda Partridge. 2003. “Demography of Dietary Restriction and Death in Drosophila.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 301 (5640): 1731–1733.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

May, Volkhard, and Oliver Kühn. 2007. Charge and Energy Transfer Dynamics in Molecular Systems. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH.

An edited book

Athreya, Sriharsha, ed. 2016. Demystifying Interventional Radiology: A Guide for Medical Students. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Vulpetti, Giovanni, Les Johnson, and Gregory L. Matloff. 2015. “The Solar Sail Option: From the Oceans to Space.” In Solar Sails: A Novel Approach to Interplanetary Travel, edited by Les Johnson and Gregory L. Matloff, 45–58. New York, NY: 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

Davis, Josh. 2016. “100-Million-Year-Old Relationship May Soon Be Driven To Extinction.” 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. 1990. Issues That Need to Be Considered in Formulating Strategies to Reduce Aviation Noise. T-RCED-90-111. 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

Linsenmeyer, Justin Paul. 2017. “A Nice Place to Live and Work: A Mixed-Methods Case Study of a Residential Life Living-Learning Community and Employment Model at a Top-Tier Midwestern University.” Doctoral dissertation, St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood 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

Parker, James. 2016. “Dear Diary (Volume 1 of 148).” New York Times, December 9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Binder 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Binder 2008; Shizgal and Arvanitogiannis 2003).

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

Two authors: (Shizgal and Arvanitogiannis 2003)
Three authors: (Perlo, Casanova, and Blümich 2007)
4 or more authors: (Mair 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