How to format your references using the Rendiconti Lincei citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Rendiconti Lincei. 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

Dalton R (2000) Astronomers fight to save telescope. Nature 406:8

A journal article with 2 authors

Jinnah S, Jungcurt S (2009) Global biological resources. Could access requirements stifle your research? Science 323:464–465

A journal article with 3 authors

Mukandavire Z, Smith DL, Morris JG Jr (2013) Cholera in Haiti: reproductive numbers and vaccination coverage estimates. Sci Rep 3:997

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lagrange A-M, Bonnefoy M, Chauvin G, et al (2010) A giant planet imaged in the disk of the young star beta Pictoris. Science 329:57–59

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perry DE, Haluska MJ (2016) Hiring Greatness. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Attarian HP (2012) Atlas of Electroencephalography in Sleep Medicine. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Tompa P (2009) Bioinformatics Approaches to the Structure and Function of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins. In: Rigden DJ (ed) From Protein Structure to Function with Bioinformatics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 113–140

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 Lincei.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) The Answer To Tackling Superbugs Could Be … More Superbugs. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1973) In-Flight Escape Systems for Helicopters Should Be Developed To Prevent Fatalities. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ruiz-Resto JV (2016) The Effects of Technical and Imagery-based Instruction on Aspiring Performing Artists’ Acquisition of Learning Newly Composed Pieces and Improvisation and on Listeners’ Perceived Expressivity. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

David Goodman J (2015) Focus in Subway Shooting Is on Whether Deadly Force Was Justified. New York Times A23

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Dalton 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Dalton 2000; Jinnah and Jungcurt 2009).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Jinnah and Jungcurt 2009)
Three or more authors: (Lagrange et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Rendiconti Lincei
ISSN (print)	2037-4631
ISSN (online)	1720-0776
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences General Earth and Planetary Sciences General Environmental Science