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

Cook DJ (2012) Computer science. How smart is your home? Science 335:1579–1581

A journal article with 2 authors

Lord KM, Turekian VC (2007) Science and society. Time for a new era of science diplomacy. Science 315:769–770

A journal article with 3 authors

Han JS, Szak ST, Boeke JD (2004) Transcriptional disruption by the L1 retrotransposon and implications for mammalian transcriptomes. Nature 429:268–274

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Slomski B, Landolt G, Bihlmayer G, et al (2013) Tuning of the Rashba effect in Pb quantum well states via a variable Schottky barrier. Sci Rep 3:1963

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown RA (2012) Extreme Tissue Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Surbone A, Zwitter M, Rajer M, Stiefel R (2013) New Challenges in Communication with Cancer Patients. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Khan SM, Lespérance Y (2006) On the Semantics of Conditional Commitment. In: Dignum FPM, Eijk RM van, Flores R (eds) Agent Communication II: International Workshops on Agent Communication, AC 2005 and AC 2006, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 25, 2005, and Hakodate, Japan, May 9, 2006, Selected and Revised Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 45–60

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

Andrew E (2014) Handcuffs, traps and spikes shed light on sex lives of insects. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/handcuffs-traps-and-spikes-shed-light-sex-lives-insects/. 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 (1991) Education Grants Management: Actions Initiated to Correct Material Weaknesses. 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

Hong AN (2017) A Diastereomeric Strategy in the Construction of Homochiral Metal-Organic Architectures. 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

Vecsey G (2010) An Old-Fashioned Drubbing In December. New York Times D5

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