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

French AN (2010) Chemistry. Clean, green chiral reactions--just add a salt. Science 328:1365–1366

A journal article with 2 authors

Lindvall O, Hyun I (2009) Medical innovation versus stem cell tourism. Science 324:1664–1665

A journal article with 3 authors

Jönsson TJ, Johnson LC, Lowther WT (2008) Structure of the sulphiredoxin-peroxiredoxin complex reveals an essential repair embrace. Nature 451:98–101

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yin HM, Kable SH, Zhang X, Bowman JM (2006) Signatures of H2CO photodissociation from two electronic states. Science 311:1443–1446

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Taylor CJ, Young PC, Chotai A (2013) True Digital Control. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

de Freitas E (2016) Alternative Theoretical Frameworks for Mathematics Education Research: Theory Meets Data. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Bhattarai BP (2012) Distribution and Diversity of Storks in the Adjoining Areas of Chitwan National Park, Nepal. In: Kindlmann P (ed) Himalayan Biodiversity in the Changing World. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 97–114

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) Bizarre New Species Of Giant Jellyfish Discovered. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bizarre-new-species-giant-jellyfish-discovered/. 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 (2002) Options to Enhance the Long-term Viability of the Essential Air Service Program. 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

Tubbs MA (2014) The use of hand-constructed graphs in Microcomputer-Based Laboratories for kinematics instruction. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kelly SR (2012) Good Neighbors, Bad Border. New York Times A31

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (French 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Lindvall and Hyun 2009; French 2010).

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

Two authors: (Lindvall and Hyun 2009)
Three or more authors: (Yin et al. 2006)

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