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]

Spitale JN. Asteroid hazard mitigation using the Yarkovsky effect. Science 2002;296:77.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Berkman MB, Plutzer E. Science education. Defeating creationism in the courtroom, but not in the classroom. Science 2011;331:404–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Dunningham J, Rau A, Burnett K. From pedigree cats to fluffy-bunnies. Science 2005;307:872–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Leidel S, Pedrioli PGA, Bucher T, Brost R, Costanzo M, Schmidt A, et al. Ubiquitin-related modifier Urm1 acts as a sulphur carrier in thiolation of eukaryotic transfer RNA. Nature 2009;458:228–32.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Castañeda LB, Arunachalam V, Dharmaraja S. Introduction to Probability and Stochastic Processes with Applications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Sheaff MT. Cytopathology: An Introduction. London: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Aral A, Gupta V, Agarwal RP. q-Summation–Integral Operators. In: Gupta V, Agarwal RP, editors. Applications of q-Calculus in Operator Theory, New York, NY: Springer; 2013, p. 145–94.

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]

Luntz S. Electrical Signals Change Monkey’s Choices. IFLScience 2014.

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. Special Education Reform: Districts Grapple with Inclusion Programs. 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]

Ghadimian V. Renewable Energy Marketplace. 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]

Rothenberg B. Russian, Making Use of Rule, Again Prospers Without Succeeding. New York Times 2017:B12.

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