How to format your references using the Quaderni Italiani di Psichiatria citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Quaderni Italiani di Psichiatria. 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

[1]

Andersson SGE. Genetics. The bacterial world gets smaller. Science 2006;314:259–60.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Feldl N, Bilham R. Great Himalayan earthquakes and the Tibetan plateau. Nature 2006;444:165–70.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Dutzler R, Campbell EB, MacKinnon R. Gating the selectivity filter in ClC chloride channels. Science 2003;300:108–12.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Bochkov VN, Kadl A, Huber J, Gruber F, Binder BR, Leitinger N. Protective role of phospholipid oxidation products in endotoxin-induced tissue damage. Nature 2002;419:77–81.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Schober H. Transparent Shells. Berlin, Germany: Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

L’Abate L. Relational Competence Theory: Research and Mental Health Applications. New York, NY: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Goodman RL, Katzew J. Curriculum Development: What We Can Learn from International Curricula. In: Miller H, Grant L, Pomson A, editors. International Handbook of Jewish Education, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011, p. 63–81.

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 Quaderni Italiani di Psichiatria.

Blog post

[1]

Taub B. Exercise Massively Increases Life Expectancy Of Brain-Damaged Mice. IFLScience 2016.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Issues Related to FAA’s Fiscal Year 1991 Budget Request. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Nguyen HM. Valuation effects and external adjustment. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 2009.

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

[1]

Billard M. A Retail Internship. New York Times 2010:E5.

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	Quaderni Italiani di Psichiatria
ISSN (print)	0393-0645
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Phychiatric Mental Health