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

Altman, E. (2007). Physics. Critical Insights. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5818), 1504–1505.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ibn-Elhaj, M., & Schadt, M. (2001). Optical polymer thin films with isotropic and anisotropic nano-corrugated surface topologies. Nature, 410(6830), 796–799.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zikherman, J., Parameswaran, R., & Weiss, A. (2012). Endogenous antigen tunes the responsiveness of naive B cells but not T cells. Nature, 489(7414), 160–164.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Allan, R. S., Smith, C. M., Belz, G. T., van Lint, A. L., Wakim, L. M., Heath, W. R., & Carbone, F. R. (2003). Epidermal viral immunity induced by CD8alpha+ dendritic cells but not by Langerhans cells. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5641), 1925–1928.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wierenga, E. R. (2016). The Philosophy of Religion. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Jatowt, A., Lim, E.-P., Ding, Y., Miura, A., Tezuka, T., Dias, G., Tanaka, K., Flanagin, A., & Dai, B. T. (Eds.). (2013). Social Informatics: 5th International Conference, SocInfo 2013, Kyoto, Japan, November 25-27, 2013, Proceedings (Vol. 8238). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Sampaolesi, R., Sampaolesi, J. R., & Zárate, J. (2014). Genetics, Heredity, and Molecular Biology in Glaucoma. In J. R. Sampaolesi & J. Zárate (Eds.), The Glaucomas: Volume II - Open Angle Glaucoma and Angle Closure Glaucoma (pp. 71–84). 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

Andrew, E. (2014, July 21). Does Size Really Matter? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/does-size-really-matter0/

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. (2011). Information Security: State Has Taken Steps to Implement a Continuous Monitoring Application, but Key Challenges Remain (GAO-11-149). 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

Roberts, J. E. (2010). Process evaluation of the Instant Word Notebook [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood 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

Lee, L. (2008, June 12). Art? Design? You Make the Call. New York Times, F3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Altman, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Altman, 2007; Ibn-Elhaj & Schadt, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Ibn-Elhaj & Schadt, 2001)
Three authors: (Zikherman et al., 2012)
6 or more authors: (Allan et al., 2003)

About the journal

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