How to format your references using the Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy. 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

Robert, F. 2001. Isotope geochemistry. The origin of water on earth. Science 293(5532): 1056–1058.

A journal article with 2 authors

Znamenskiy, P., Zador, A.M. 2013. Corticostriatal neurons in auditory cortex drive decisions during auditory discrimination. Nature 497(7450): 482–485.

A journal article with 3 authors

Barna, M., Pandolfi, P.P., Niswander, L. 2005. Gli3 and Plzf cooperate in proximal limb patterning at early stages of limb development. Nature 436(7048): 277–281.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dressaire, E., Bee, R., Bell, D.C., Lips, A., Stone, H.A. 2008. Interfacial polygonal nanopatterning of stable microbubbles. Science 320(5880): 1198–1201.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bauer, E. 2010. Design for Reliability. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Einav, G. (Ed.). 2015. The New World of Transitioned Media: Digital Realignment and Industry Transformation. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Hampel, D., Issever Grochová, L., Janová, J., Kabát, L., Střelec, L. 2016. Sustainable Development in the EU. In: Huber, P., Nerudová, D., Rozmahel, P.(Eds.) Competitiveness, Social Inclusion and Sustainability in a Diverse European Union: Perspectives from Old and New Member States. Springer International Publishing, Cham. 47–73.

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 Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. Are Quantum Dot TVs – And Their Toxic Ingredients – Actually Better For The Environment? Available from https://www.iflscience.com/technology/are-quantum-dot-tvs-and-their-toxic-ingredients-actually-better-environment/ [30 October 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. 2000. Higher Education: Trustee Arrangements Serve Useful Purpose in Student Loan Market. U.S. Government Printing Office, HEHS-00-170. Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chahine, J. 2013. Social workers’ perceptions of individuals who use drugs and alcohol problematically. 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

Rothenberg, B. 2017. Djokovic Keeps Title Defense Alive, but Not Without an Early Scare. New York Times: D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Robert, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Robert, 2001; Znamenskiy and Zador, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Znamenskiy and Zador, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Dressaire et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy
ISSN (print)	0394-1914
ISSN (online)	1825-5272
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