How to format your references using the Ricerche di Matematica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Ricerche di Matematica. 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

Anthes, E.: Treatment: Marginal gains. Nature. 508, S54-6 (2014)

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu, Y., Yan, H.: Chemistry. Designer curvature. Science. 325, 685–686 (2009)

A journal article with 3 authors

Kelbert, A., Schultz, A., Egbert, G.: Global electromagnetic induction constraints on transition-zone water content variations. Nature. 460, 1003–1006 (2009)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Domergue, R., Castaño, I., De Las Peñas, A., Zupancic, M., Lockatell, V., Hebel, J.R., Johnson, D., Cormack, B.P.: Nicotinic acid limitation regulates silencing of Candida adhesins during UTI. Science. 308, 866–870 (2005)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Frank, P., Ottoboni, M.A.: The Dose Makes the Poison. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2011)

An edited book

Toniolo, L., Boriani, M., Guidi, G. eds: Built Heritage: Monitoring Conservation Management. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Inokuchi, J.-I., Go, S., Hirabayashi, Y.: Synthesis of O-Linked Glycoconjugates in the Nervous System. In: Yu, R.K. and Schengrund, C.-L. (eds.) Glycobiology of the Nervous System. pp. 71–87. Springer, New York, NY (2014)

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 Ricerche di Matematica.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Researchers Find Fossil Fragments Of World’s Oldest Flowering Plant

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: Global Positioning System: A Comprehensive Assessment of Potential Options and Related Costs is Needed. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2013)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Soheili, A.: A transannular Cope approach toward the core structure of isocyclocitrinol, (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

Otis, J.: Keeping a Sunny Spirit in the Face of Hardship, (2017)

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	Ricerche di Matematica
Abbreviation	Ric. Mat.
ISSN (print)	0035-5038
ISSN (online)	1827-3491
Scope	General Mathematics Applied Mathematics