How to format your references using the Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia (RIPS). 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

Buckingham, S. (2003) - Bioinformatics: programmed for success. Nature, 425(6954), 209-215.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hutvágner, G., & Zamore, P.D. (2002) - A microRNA in a multiple-turnover RNAi enzyme complex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5589), 2056-2060.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mashchenko, S., Wadsley, J., & Couchman, H.M.P. (2008) - Stellar feedback in dwarf galaxy formation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5860), 174-177.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shi, Y., Sawada, J.-I., Sui, G., Affar, E.B., Whetstine, J.R., Lan, F., Ogawa, H., Luke, M.P.-S., Nakatani, Y., & Shi, Y. (2003) - Coordinated histone modifications mediated by a CtBP co-repressor complex. Nature, 422(6933), 735-738.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chartered Institute of Building (2016) - Code of Practice for Programme Management in the Built Environment. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Seeberger, P.H., & Blume, T. (Eds.) (2007) - New Avenues to Efficient Chemical Synthesis: Emerging Technologies:Vol. 2006/3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XIV, 241 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Schwarz, S., Tyas, T.H., & Prawitasari-Hadiyono, J.E. (2014) - Methodological Basis of a Culture-Specific Coping Approach In: Zaumseil, M., Schwarz, S., von Vacano, M., Sullivan, G.B., & Prawitasari-Hadiyono, J.E. (Eds.) - Cultural Psychology of Coping with Disasters: The Case of an Earthquake in Java, Indonesia:129-152. Springer, New York, NY.

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 Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, May 20) - The Two-Spot Octopus Can See Without Eyes. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/seeing-without-eyes-two-spot-octopus-can-sense-light-through-its-skin/

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 (1980) - The Post-Implementation Review (No. 112925). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Meghani, H.P. (2017) - Med-Equip Solutions LLC: A wheelchair distributor company business plan (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Hollander, S. (2002, August 11) - Game and the Season End In Frustration for the Power. New York Times, p. 85.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buckingham 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Buckingham 2003; Hutvágner & Zamore 2002).

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

Two authors: (Hutvágner & Zamore 2002)
Three or more authors: (Shi et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia
ISSN (print)	0035-6883
ISSN (online)	2039-4942
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