How to format your references using the Modern Italy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Modern Italy. 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	Download the output style file
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

Robock, Alan. 2002. “Pinatubo Eruption. The Climatic Aftermath.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 295 (5558): 1242–1244.

A journal article with 2 authors

Graham, Stuart, and Deepak Hegde. 2015. “Intellectual Property. Disclosing Patents’ Secrets.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 347 (6219): 236–237.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zeng, Beibei, Yongkang Gao, and Filbert J. Bartoli. 2013. “Ultrathin Nanostructured Metals for Highly Transmissive Plasmonic Subtractive Color Filters.” Scientific Reports 3 (October): 2840.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Egan, Marie E., Marilyn Pearson, Scott A. Weiner, Vanathy Rajendran, Daniel Rubin, Judith Glöckner-Pagel, Susan Canny, Kai Du, Gergely L. Lukacs, and Michael J. Caplan. 2004. “Curcumin, a Major Constituent of Turmeric, Corrects Cystic Fibrosis Defects.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 304 (5670): 600–602.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Flood, Joanne M. 2014. Wiley Gaap 2015. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Nakamura, Takashi. 2015. Urban Mining Systems. Edited by Kohmei Halada. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Issar, Gilad, and Liat Ramati Navon. 2016. “Decision Support Systems (DSS).” In Operational Excellence: A Concise Guide to Basic Concepts and Their Application, edited by Liat Ramati Navon, 17–20. Management for Professionals. 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 Modern Italy.

Blog post

Andrew, Danielle. 2016. “Harvard Study: Policy Issues Nearly Absent In Presidential Campaign Coverage.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/harvard-study-policy-issues-nearly-absent-in-presidential-campaign-coverage/.

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. 2007. NASA Supplier Base: Challenges Exist in Transitioning from the Space Shuttle Program to the Next Generation of Human Space Flight Systems. GAO-07-940. 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

Hartl, Susanne D. 2012. “The Role of Culture in Managing Diversity: How Culturally Based Heuristics Differ in Minority and Non-Minority Managerial Decision Making.” Doctoral dissertation, Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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

Isherwood, Charles. 2015. “Sigh No More; Let’s Twist and Shout.” New York Times, December 16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Robock 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Robock 2002; Graham and Hegde 2015).

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

Two authors: (Graham and Hegde 2015)
Three authors: (Zeng, Gao, and Bartoli 2013)
4 or more authors: (Egan et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Modern Italy
Abbreviation	Mod. Italy
ISSN (print)	1353-2944
ISSN (online)	1469-9877
Scope	History Sociology and Political Science Anthropology Cultural Studies