How to format your references using the Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia (RIPS). 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

Blandford, R.D. (2002) - Blood out of a stone. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5560), 1653-1654.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kwon, O.-H., & Zewail, A.H. (2010) - 4D electron tomography. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5986), 1668-1673.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bonabeau, E., Dorigo, M., & Theraulaz, G. (2000) - Inspiration for optimization from social insect behaviour. Nature, 406(6791), 39-42.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bamber, J.L., Riva, R.E.M., Vermeersen, B.L.A., & LeBrocq, A.M. (2009) - Reassessment of the potential sea-level rise from a collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5929), 901-903.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fleming, P., & Lee, R. (2016) - Orthodontic Functional Appliances. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Craig, R.G., & Kamer, A.R. (Eds.) (2016) - A Clinician’s Guide to Systemic Effects of Periodontal Diseases. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, VIII, 124 p. 11 illus., 7 illus. in color pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Eessaar, E. (2008) - On Metamodel-Based Design of Software Metrics In: Meyer, B., Nawrocki, J.R., & Walter, B. (Eds.) - Balancing Agility and Formalism in Software Engineering: Second IFIP TC 2 Central and East European Conference on Software Engineering Techniques, CEE-SET 2007, Poznan, Poland, October 10-12, 2007, Revised Selected Papers:40-54. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2016, October 11) - Bizarre Young Planetary System Found With An Extra Planet-Forming Disk. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/space/bizarre-planetary-system-found-with-three-planet-forming-disks/

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 (1983) - Analysis of Migration Characteristics of Children Served Under the Migrant Education Program (No. HRD-83-40). 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

Nikolova, S. (2010) - Health insurance transitions of SCHIP-eligible children in response to higher public premiums (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Brantley, B. (2017, January 13) - Activists Haunted by Their K.G.B. Ordeal. New York Times, p. C5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Blandford 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Blandford 2002; Kwon & Zewail 2010).

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

Two authors: (Kwon & Zewail 2010)
Three or more authors: (Bamber et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia
ISSN (print)	0035-6883
ISSN (online)	2039-4942
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