How to format your references using the Rendiconti Lincei citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Rendiconti Lincei. 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

Merali Z (2011) Quantum computing: The power of discord. Nature 474:24–26

A journal article with 2 authors

Haney CH, Ausubel FM (2015) MICROBIOME. Plant microbiome blueprints. Science 349:788–789

A journal article with 3 authors

Zachos JC, Dickens GR, Zeebe RE (2008) An early Cenozoic perspective on greenhouse warming and carbon-cycle dynamics. Nature 451:279–283

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Arnett HA, Fancy SPJ, Alberta JA, et al (2004) bHLH transcription factor Olig1 is required to repair demyelinated lesions in the CNS. Science 306:2111–2115

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Poltorak AI, Lerner PJ (2011) Essentials of Intellectual Property. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Bartunek J, Vanderheyden M (eds) (2013) Translational Approach to Heart Failure. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Barden B, DiVenere J, Singh H, Mazzocca AD (2015) Postoperative Shoulder Stiffness After Rotator Cuff Repair. In: Itoi E, Arce G, Bain GI, et al. (eds) Shoulder Stiffness: Current Concepts and Concerns. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 49–73

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 Rendiconti Lincei.

Blog post

Davis J (2015) “Remarkable” Results Show Ebola Vaccine Trial Provides 100% Protection. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/remarkable-results-show-ebola-vaccine-trial-provides-100-protection/. 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 (1978) Information on Organization and Functions of the Indian Education Resources Center. 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

Schutt R (2010) Topics in model-based population inference. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia 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

Vecsey G (2011) Gridiron and Steel Toughened Judge In Clemens Case. New York Times B13

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Merali 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Merali 2011; Haney and Ausubel 2015).

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

Two authors: (Haney and Ausubel 2015)
Three or more authors: (Arnett et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Rendiconti Lincei
ISSN (print)	2037-4631
ISSN (online)	1720-0776
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences General Earth and Planetary Sciences General Environmental Science