How to format your references using the Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Rausher, M.D.: Co-evolution and plant resistance to natural enemies. Nature. 411, 857–864 (2001)

A journal article with 2 authors

Hinton, G.E., Salakhutdinov, R.R.: Reducing the dimensionality of data with neural networks. Science. 313, 504–507 (2006)

A journal article with 3 authors

Montrose, K., Yang, Y., Krissansen, G.W.: The tetrapeptide core of the carrier peptide Xentry is cell-penetrating: novel activatable forms of Xentry. Sci. Rep. 4, 4900 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pighin, J.A., Zheng, H., Balakshin, L.J., Goodman, I.P., Western, T.L., Jetter, R., Kunst, L., Samuels, A.L.: Plant cuticular lipid export requires an ABC transporter. Science. 306, 702–704 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety: A Practical Approach to Hazard Identification for Operations and Maintenance Workers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2010)

An edited book

Sethi, S.P.: Inventory and Supply Chain Management with Forecast Updates. Springer US, Boston, MA (2005)

A chapter in an edited book

Fiser, O., Brazda, V.: Experimental Validation of FSO Channel Models. In: Uysal, M., Capsoni, C., Ghassemlooy, Z., Boucouvalas, A., and Udvary, E. (eds.) Optical Wireless Communications: An Emerging Technology. pp. 69–86. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

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 Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: India’s Rocket Mission Cheaper Than The Movie Gravity, https://www.iflscience.com/technology/indias-rocket-mission-cheaper-movie-gravity/

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: Evaluation of Unit Cost Reports Submitted Under Public Law 97-86, Section 917. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1982)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ross, T.A.: The surgical technologist learning partnership: A comparison of factors in a preceptor relationship, (2008)

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

Saslow, L.: State Court Blocks Synagogue’s Expansion, (2007)

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	Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo
Abbreviation	Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo (2)
ISSN (print)	0009-725X
ISSN (online)	1973-4409
Scope	General Mathematics