How to format your references using the Contemporary Italian Politics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Contemporary Italian Politics. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Malakoff, D. 2000. “ECONOMICS: ‘To Your Health’ Is More Than a Toast to Economists.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 289 (5483): 1275.

A journal article with 2 authors

Karner, D. B., and R. A. Muller. 2000. “PALEOCLIMATE: A Causality Problem for Milankovitch.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 288 (5474): 2143–2144.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zarnetske, Phoebe L., David K. Skelly, and Mark C. Urban. 2012. “Ecology. Biotic Multipliers of Climate Change.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 336 (6088): 1516–1518.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wang, Xiuyun, Zhilin Chen, Yongjin Luo, Lilong Jiang, and Ruihu Wang. 2013. “Cu/Ba/Bauxite: An Inexpensive and Efficient Alternative for Pt/Ba/Al₂O₃ in NOx Removal.” Scientific Reports 3 (2013): 1559.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cannon, Christopher M. 2011. An Executive’s Guide to Fundraising Operations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Eslami, M. Reza. 2013. Theory of Elasticity and Thermal Stresses: Explanations, Problems and Solutions. Edited by Richard B. Hetnarski, Józef Ignaczak, Naotake Noda, Naobumi Sumi, and Yoshinobu Tanigawa. Vol. 197. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Ehrenschwender, Martin, and Harald Wajant. 2009. “The Role of FasL and Fas in Health and Disease.” In Therapeutic Targets of the TNF Superfamily, edited by Iqbal S. Grewal, 64–93. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, Nathan Back, Irun R. Cohen, Abel Lajtha, John D. Lambris, and Rodolfo Paoletti. New York, NY: Springer.

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 Contemporary Italian Politics.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2015. “Do You Have Seasonal Affective Disorder?” IFLScience, IFLScience, November 11. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-seasonal-affective-disorder-0/.

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. 2007. Homeland Security: DHS Enterprise Architecture Continues to Evolve but Improvements Needed. GAO-07-564. 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

Katz, Renee L. 2014. “Graduate Nursing Students’ Perceptions Regarding Caring for Patients with HIV.” 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

Greenhouse, Linda. 2010. “The Court As Mr. Fix-It?” New York Times, May 1, 2010.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Malakoff 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Malakoff 2000; Karner and Muller 2000).

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

Two authors: (Karner and Muller 2000)
Three authors: (Zarnetske, Skelly, and Urban 2012)
4 or more authors: (Wang et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Contemporary Italian Politics
Abbreviation	Contemp. Ital. Polit.
ISSN (print)	2324-8823
ISSN (online)	2324-8831
Scope