How to format your references using the La radiologia medica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for La radiologia medica. 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

Hellemans A (2000) SPACE SCIENCE: Europe Set to Work on Hubble’s Replacement. Science 289:2019a

A journal article with 2 authors

Ferdinand NK, Opitz B (2014) Different aspects of performance feedback engage different brain areas: disentangling valence and expectancy in feedback processing. Sci Rep 4:5986

A journal article with 3 authors

Jayne BC, Voris HK, Ng PKL (2002) Snake circumvents constraints on prey size. Nature 418:143

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kang W, Stormer HL, Pfeiffer LN, et al (2000) Tunnelling between the edges of two lateral quantum Hall systems. Nature 403:59–61

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chandra S (2016) Energy, Entropy and Engines. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Eliades T, Eliades G (2014) Plastics in Dentistry and Estrogenicity: A Guide to Safe Practice. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Kollmar O, Menger MD, Schilling MK (2011) Role of CXC Chemokines and Receptors in Liver Metastasis – Impact on Liver Resection-Induced Engraftment and Tumor Growth. In: Brodt P (ed) Liver Metastasis: Biology and Clinical Management. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 129–154

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 La radiologia medica.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2017) One Of Earth’s Closest Failed Stars May Actually Be A Rogue Planet. In: IFLScience. 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 (2010) Propane and Heating Oil: Federal Oversight of the Propane Education and Research Council and National Oilheat Research Alliance Should Be Strengthened. 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

Moble B (2010) Fundamental understanding of the cycloidal-rotor concept for micro air vehicle applications. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Gordon MR (2017) ISIS Leader Killed, U.S. Says. New York Times A8

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	La radiologia medica
Abbreviation	Radiol. Med.
ISSN (print)	0033-8362
ISSN (online)	1826-6983
Scope	General Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging