How to format your references using the Aula Abierta citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Aula Abierta. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Kaiser, R. (2006). Flowers and fungi use scents to mimic each other. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5762), 806–807.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chiu, C., & Weliky, M. (2003). Neuroscience. Synaptic modification by vision. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5627), 1890–1891.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, G.-W., Oh, E., & Weissman, J. S. (2012). The anti-Shine-Dalgarno sequence drives translational pausing and codon choice in bacteria. Nature, 484(7395), 538–541.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wendel, H.-G., De Stanchina, E., Fridman, J. S., Malina, A., Ray, S., Kogan, S., Cordon-Cardo, C., Pelletier, J., & Lowe, S. W. (2004). Survival signalling by Akt and eIF4E in oncogenesis and cancer therapy. Nature, 428(6980), 332–337.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Raz, D., Juhola, A., Serrat-Fernandez, J., & Galis, A. (2006). Fast and Efficient Context-Aware Services. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Diodato, N., & Bellocchi, G. (Eds.). (2014). Storminess and Environmental Change: Climate Forcing and Responses in the Mediterranean Region (Vol. 39). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Hughes, G. R. V., & Sangle, S. (2012). Tendons and joints. In G. R. V. Hughes & S. Sangle (Eds.), Clinician’s Manual on Lupus (pp. 19–21). Springer Healthcare Ltd.

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 Aula Abierta.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2015, November 11). White Dwarf Has Rare Ring System After Ripping An Asteroid Apart. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/white-dwarf-rips-asteroid-apart-and-gets-shiny-ring-system/

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). Quality of Weather Forecasts and Opportunity for Improvements (CED-78-33). 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

Lamanna, C. A. (2012). The structure and function of subalpine ecosystems in the face of climate change [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Kelly, M. (1992, July 14). Gore Tells the Wary: Clinton Isn’t a Worry. New York Times, A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kaiser, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Chiu & Weliky, 2003; Kaiser, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Chiu & Weliky, 2003)
Three authors: (Li et al., 2012)
6 or more authors: (Wendel et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aula Abierta
ISSN (print)	0210-2773
Scope	Education