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

Morris, M. R. (2004). Astronomy. Glimpsing matter at the brink. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5671), 689–692.

A journal article with 2 authors

Imambekov, A., & Glazman, L. I. (2009). Universal theory of nonlinear Luttinger liquids. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5911), 228–231.

A journal article with 3 authors

Velicer, G. J., Kroos, L., & Lenski, R. E. (2000). Developmental cheating in the social bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. Nature, 404(6778), 598–601.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Wu, J., Xu, J., Liu, B., Yao, G., Wang, P., Lin, Z., Huang, B., Wang, X., Li, T., Shi, S., Zhang, N., Duan, F., Ming, J., Zhang, X., Niu, W., Song, W., Jin, H., Guo, Y., Dai, S., … Sun, Y. (2018). Publisher Correction: Chromatin analysis in human early development reveals epigenetic transition during ZGA. Nature, 560(7718), E27.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saghyan, A. S., & Langer, P. (2016). Asymmetric Synthesis of Non&;#x02010;Proteinogenic Amino Acids. Wiley&;#x02010;VCH Verlag GmbH &;#38; Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Schoen, R. (Ed.). (2016). Dynamic Demographic Analysis (Vol. 39). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Lichte, P., & Pape, H.-C. (2014). The Multiply Injured Patient. In W. R. Smith & P. F. Stahel (Eds.), Management of Musculoskeletal Injuries in the Trauma Patient (pp. 111–119). 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 Aula Abierta.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015, October 7). Mushrooms Could Extend Battery Life. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/mushrooms-could-extend-battery-life/

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. (1988). Attack Warning: NORAD’s Communications System Segment Replacement Program Should Be Reassessed (IMTEC-89-1). 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

Kolakoski, M. (2013). The appeal to be heard and the trope of listening in classic film and African American literature [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

Greenhouse, L. (2007, December 8). Americans Held in Iraq Draw Justices’ Attention. New York Times, A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Morris, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Imambekov & Glazman, 2009; Morris, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Imambekov & Glazman, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Wu et al., 2018)

About the journal

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