How to format your references using the Journal of Modern Italian Studies citation style

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

Maxmen, Amy. 2011. “Pharmacogenomics: Playing the Odds.” Nature 474 (7350): S9-10.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pearson, P. N., and M. R. Palmer. 2000. “Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentrations over the Past 60 Million Years.” Nature 406 (6797): 695–699.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hansel, D. E., B. A. Eipper, and G. V. Ronnett. 2001. “Neuropeptide Y Functions as a Neuroproliferative Factor.” Nature 410 (6831): 940–944.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kroodsma, David A., Juan Mayorga, Timothy Hochberg, Nathan A. Miller, Kristina Boerder, Francesco Ferretti, Alex Wilson, et al. 2018. “Response to Comment on ‘Tracking the Global Footprint of Fisheries.’” Science (New York, N.Y.) 361 (6404).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hopkins, Bruce R. 2012. Starting and Managing a Nonprofit Organization. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Castro Solano, Alejandro, ed. 2014. Positive Psychology in Latin America. Vol. 10. Cross-Cultural Advancements in Positive Psychology. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Cardoso, Francisco. 2014. “Sydenham’s Chorea.” In Chorea: Causes and Management, edited by Federico E. Micheli and Peter A. LeWitt, 57–69. London: 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 Journal of Modern Italian Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Slow Motion Video: Underwater Bullet.” IFLScience, IFLScience, May 15.

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. 1995. Charter Schools: New Model for Public Schools Provides Opportunities and Challenges. HEHS-95-42. 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

Martinez, Jessica. 2013. “Effective Nonprofit Collaborative Networks.” Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University.

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

MERCED, Michael J. de la. 2017. “SoftBank Leads Big Stake In Virtual-Reality Designer.” New York Times, May 11, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Maxmen 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Maxmen 2011; Pearson and Palmer 2000).

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

Two authors: (Pearson and Palmer 2000)
Three authors: (Hansel, Eipper, and Ronnett 2001)
4 or more authors: (Kroodsma et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Modern Italian Studies
Abbreviation	J. Mod. Ital. Stud.
ISSN (print)	1354-571X
ISSN (online)	1469-9583
Scope	History Sociology and Political Science Cultural Studies Political Science and International Relations