How to format your references using the Sinergie Italian Journal of Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sinergie Italian Journal of Management (SIJM). 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

MONTGOMERY M.H. (2011), “Astronomy. Shooting for the stars”, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 332, n. 6026, pp. 180–181.

A journal article with 2 authors

BARTHELME D., SAUER R.T. (2012), “Identification of the Cdc48•20S proteasome as an ancient AAA+ proteolytic machine”, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 337, n. 6096, pp. 843–846.

A journal article with 3 authors

REY P.F., COLTICE N., FLAMENT N. (2014), “Spreading continents kick-started plate tectonics”, Nature, vol. 513, n. 7518, pp. 405–408.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

CHOI O., KIM T., WOO H.M., UM Y. (2014), “Electricity-driven metabolic shift through direct electron uptake by electroactive heterotroph Clostridium pasteurianum”, Scientific reports, vol. 4, p. 6961.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

PEARCE R., BARNES S. (2006), Raising Venture Capital, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

DENG C., MA L., LIN W., NGAN K.N. (Eds) (2015), Visual Signal Quality Assessment: Quality of Experience (QoE), Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

ZHANG Q., LI H., ZHANG X. (2015), “Cat Scratch Disease”, in Li H. (Ed). Radiology of Infectious Diseases: Volume 2, pp. 63–68.

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 Sinergie Italian Journal of Management.

Blog post

CARPINETI A. (2015), How We Can Use The Moon To Get To Mars, IFLScience. [viewed 30 October 2018] Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/best-way-mars-might-be-moon/.

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 (1999), Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Agencies’ Reporting of Mission-Critical Classified Systems, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, No. AIMD-99-218.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

ACCORTT E.E. (2009), Frontal alpha electroencephalography (EEG) asymmetry as a risk factor for pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD); a psychophysiological and family history approach. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

WALSH M.W. (2016), “Struggling Puerto Rico Defaults on Its Debt Payments”, New York Times, 2016-1-5, p. p. B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Montgomery 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Montgomery 2011; Barthelme and Sauer 2012).

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

Two authors: (Barthelme and Sauer 2012)
Three or more authors: (Choi et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sinergie Italian Journal of Management
ISSN (print)	0393-5108
Scope