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]

Walker P. Nuclear physics. Doubly magic nickel. Nature 2000;404:447, 449.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Sutton PJ, Kusmartsev FV. Gravitational vortices and clump formation in Saturn’s F ring during an encounter with Prometheus. Sci Rep 2013;3:1276.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Postma E, Griffith SC, Brooks R. Evolutionary genetics: evolution of mate choice in the wild. Nature 2006;444:E16; discussion E16-7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Weldeab S, Lea DW, Schneider RR, Andersen N. 155,000 years of West African monsoon and ocean thermal evolution. Science 2007;316:1303–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Dao TT, Ho Ba Tho M-C. Biomechanics of the Musculoskeletal System. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Handl J, Hart E, Lewis PR, López-Ibáñez M, Ochoa G, Paechter B, editors. Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN XIV: 14th International Conference, Edinburgh, UK, September 17-21, 2016, Proceedings. vol. 9921. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Cohen JA, Rae-Grant A. Treatment of acute relapses of multiple sclerosis. In: Rae-Grant A, editor. Handbook of Multiple Sclerosis, Tarporley: Springer Healthcare Ltd.; 2010, p. 25–8.

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]

Andrews R. Groundbreaking Surgery Restores Hand And Arm Movement In Quadriplegics. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/pioneering-surgery-restores-hand-and-arm-movement-quadriplegics/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Pell Grant Costs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Young WB. First-Generation Undergraduate Researchers: Engaging and Validating Cultural Wealth-Based Self-Authors. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

Brantley B. Wine, Cheese and Polyamory. New York Times 2017:C1.

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