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

Cocroft R (2009) An ecologist marvels at animals that learn to eavesdrop. Nature 460:439

A journal article with 2 authors

Silphaduang U, Noga EJ (2001) Peptide antibiotics in mast cells of fish. Nature 414:268–269

A journal article with 3 authors

Reiner SL, Sallusto F, Lanzavecchia A (2007) Division of labor with a workforce of one: challenges in specifying effector and memory T cell fate. Science 317:622–625

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Amelung F, Yun S-H, Walter TR, et al (2007) Stress control of deep rift intrusion at Mauna Loa volcano, Hawaii. Science 316:1026–1030

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 (1992) Guidelines for Auditing Process Safety Management Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Oktyabrsky S, Ye P (eds) (2010) Fundamentals of III-V Semiconductor MOSFETs. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Wang T-Q, Wang H-X, Li Y (2016) Reversible Data Hiding with Low Bit-Rate Growth in H.264/AVC Compressed Video by Adaptive Hybrid Coding. In: Sun X, Liu A, Chao H-C, Bertino E (eds) Cloud Computing and Security: Second International Conference, ICCCS 2016, Nanjing, China, July 29-31, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, Part I. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 48–62

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

Luntz S (2014) Humans Took Away Dogs’ Mathematical Abilities. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/humans-took-away-dogs-mathematical-abilities/. 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 (2009) Federal Research: Information on the Government’s Right to Assert Ownership Control over Federally Funded Inventions. 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

Beverley D (2014) Golf as a tool for executive leadership development. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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

Pilon M (2012) Richards-Ross Breaks American Drought In the Women’s 400. New York Times D1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cocroft 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Silphaduang and Noga 2001; Cocroft 2009).

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

Two authors: (Silphaduang and Noga 2001)
Three or more authors: (Amelung et al. 2007)

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