How to format your references using the Italian Economic Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Italian Economic Journal. 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

Stone R (2000) U.S.-RUSSIA TIES: Spy Conviction Strains Science Collaborations. Science 290:2043–2045

A journal article with 2 authors

Robeva R, Laubenbacher R (2009) Mathematical biology education: beyond calculus. Science 325:542–543

A journal article with 3 authors

Lovejoy CO, Heiple KG, Meindl RS (2001) Palaeoanthropology: Did our ancestors knuckle-walk? Nature 410:325–326

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Taleyarkhan RP, West CD, Cho JS, et al (2002) Evidence for nuclear emissions during acoustic cavitation. Science 295:1868–1873

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perl J, DeMark TR (2010) DeMark Indicators. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Pol J van de, Weber M (eds) (2010) Model Checking Software: 17th International SPIN Workshop, Enschede, The Netherlands, September 27-29, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Stobbelaar DJ, Hendriks K (2007) Seasonality of Agricultural Landscapes: Reading Time and Place by Colours and Shapes. In: Palang H, Sooväli H, Printsmann A (eds) Seasonal Landscapes. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 103–126

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 Italian Economic Journal.

Blog post

Fang J (2016) Male Spiders Perform Oral Sex On Females. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/male-spiders-perform-oral-sex-females/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2009) Responses to Questions for the Record: March 18, 2009, Hearing on ATC Modernization: Near-Term Achievable Goals. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hendry M (2014) The Lonely Nineteenth Century: Loneliness and the Female Protagonist in the Victorian Novel. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Koblin J (2016) Williams Expected to Get His Own Show on MSNBC. New York Times B2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stone 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Stone 2000; Robeva and Laubenbacher 2009).

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

Two authors: (Robeva and Laubenbacher 2009)
Three or more authors: (Taleyarkhan et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Italian Economic Journal
Abbreviation	Ital. Econ. J.
ISSN (print)	2199-322X
ISSN (online)	2199-3238
Scope