How to format your references using the Sinergie Italian Journal of Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sinergie Italian Journal of Management (SIJM). 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

HOAG H. (2015), “Molecular biology: Marked progress”, Nature, vol. 527, n. 7578, pp. S114-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

MEZIANE-CHERIF D., COURVALIN P. (2014), “Antibiotic resistance: to the rescue of old drugs”, Nature, vol. 510, n. 7506, pp. 477–478.

A journal article with 3 authors

ZHU A., DING C., TIAN Y. (2013), “A two-photon ratiometric fluorescence probe for cupric ions in live cells and tissues”, Scientific reports, vol. 3, p. 2933.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

LAGOS M., BALLHAUS C., MÜNKER C., WOHLGEMUTH-UEBERWASSER C., BERNDT J., KUZMIN D.V. (2008), “The Earth’s missing lead may not be in the core”, Nature, vol. 456, n. 7218, pp. 89–92.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

WANG B.-C. (2008), Digital Signal Processing Techniques and Applications in Radar Image Processing, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

SAKAS D.E., SIMPSON B.A., KRAMES E.S. (Eds) (2007), Operative Neuromodulation: Volume 1: Functional Neuroprosthetic Surgery. An Introduction, Springer, Vienna.

A chapter in an edited book

MAHANTA C., CHOUDHURY R., BASU S., HEMANI R., DUTTA A., BARUA P.P., BORAH P.J., BHATTACHARYA M., BHATTACHARYA K., ALAM W., SAIKIA L., MUKHERJEE A., BHATTACHARYA P. (2015), “Preliminary Assessment of Arsenic Distribution in Brahmaputra River Basin of India Based on Examination of 56,180 Public Groundwater Wells”, in Ramanathan A.L., Johnston S., Mukherjee A., Nath B. (Eds). Safe and Sustainable Use of Arsenic-Contaminated Aquifers in the Gangetic Plain: A Multidisciplinary Approach, pp. 57–64.

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 Sinergie Italian Journal of Management.

Blog post

EVANS K. (2016), Here’s How To Get “Pokémon Go” In The UK On IPhone And Android — Even Though It’s Not Out Here Yet, IFLScience. [viewed 30 October 2018] Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/heres-how-to-get-pokemon-go-in-the-uk-on-iphone-and-android-even-though-its-not-out-here-yet/.

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 (1997), Customs Modernization, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, No. AIMD-97-43R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

KHALILI A. (2017), Spectrally formulated user-defined element in Abaqus for wave motion analysis and health monitoring of composite structures. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

MCKINLEY J.C. Jr (2017), “2nd Etan Patz Jury Knew Members of First Jury Were Watching, Defense Says”, New York Times, 2017-2-28, p. p. A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoag 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Meziane-Cherif and Courvalin 2014; Hoag 2015).

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

Two authors: (Meziane-Cherif and Courvalin 2014)
Three or more authors: (Lagos et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sinergie Italian Journal of Management
ISSN (print)	0393-5108
Scope