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]

Tobias JA. Biodiversity: Hidden impacts of logging. Nature 2015;523:163–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

MacLean EL, Hare B. Evolution. Dogs hijack the human bonding pathway. Science 2015;348:280–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Loudon JC, Mathur ND, Midgley PA. Charge-ordered ferromagnetic phase in La(0.5)Ca(0.5)MnO3. Nature 2002;420:797–800.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

LaHaye MD, Suh J, Echternach PM, Schwab KC, Roukes ML. Nanomechanical measurements of a superconducting qubit. Nature 2009;459:960–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Darbyshire P, Hampton D. Hedge Fund Modelling and Analysis Using Excel and VBA. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Bitros GC, Kyriazis NC, editors. Essays in Contemporary Economics: A Festschrift in Memory of A. D. Karayiannis. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Dong Z. Enabling Users to Self-manage Networks: Collaborative Anomaly Detection in Wireless Personal Area Networks. In: Blyth J, Dietrich S, Camp LJ, editors. Financial Cryptography and Data Security: FC 2012 Workshops, USEC and WECSR 2012, Kralendijk, Bonaire, March 2, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 53–67.

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]

Hale T. A 75-Pound Pearl Has Been Hidden Under A Fisherman’s Bed For 10 Years. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/a-75pound-pearl-has-been-hidden-under-a-fishermans-bed-for-10-years/ (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. Information Security: State Has Taken Steps to Implement a Continuous Monitoring Application, but Key Challenges Remain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Lee CM. Principals’ Understanding of Teacher Evaluations Connected to the Colorado Student Assessment Program. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 2014.

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]

Pilon M. Right to Play Is a Victory For a School. New York Times 2013:D3.

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

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