How to format your references using the Estudios de Historia Novohispana citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Estudios de Historia Novohispana. 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

Livio, M. (2011). Lost in translation: Mystery of the missing text solved. Nature, 479(7372), 171–173.

A journal article with 2 authors

Williams, B. J., & Jorge y Jorge, M. del C. (2008). Aztec arithmetic revisited: land-area algorithms and Acolhua congruence arithmetic. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5872), 72–77.

A journal article with 3 authors

Furey, M. L., Pietrini, P., & Haxby, J. V. (2000). Cholinergic enhancement and increased selectivity of perceptual processing during working memory. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5500), 2315–2319.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Nakamura, I., Hama, S., Itakura, S., Takasaki, I., Nishi, T., Tabuchi, Y., & Kogure, K. (2014). Lipocalin2 as a plasma marker for tumors with hypoxic regions. Scientific Reports, 4, 7235.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schweiker, W. (2010). Dust that Breathes. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Lopes, L. S., Lau, N., Mariano, P., & Rocha, L. M. (Eds.). (2009). Progress in Artificial Intelligence: 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2009, Aveiro, Portugal, October 12-15, 2009. Proceedings (Vol. 5816). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Holmberg, K., Eriksson-Backa, K., & Ek, S. (2014). Tweeting about Diabetes and Diets – Content and Conversational Connections. In K. Saranto, M. Castrén, T. Kuusela, S. Hyrynsalmi, & S. Ojala (Eds.), Safe and Secure Cities: 5th International Conference on Well-Being in the Information Society, WIS 2014, Turku, Finland, August 18-20, 2014. Proceedings (pp. 46–56). Springer International Publishing.

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 Estudios de Historia Novohispana.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2015, September 13). 9 Science-Backed Studying Tips. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/how-study-smarter/

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. (1996). Rural Development: Steps Towards Realizing the Potential of Telecommunications Technologies (RCED-96-155). 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

Graber, M. E. (2013). Best practices in enhancement deals: Nonprofit and for profit theatrical collaborations [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Crow, K. (2003, January 26). Seeking to Preserve the Site Where a Famed Ancestor Traded. New York Times, 148.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Livio, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Livio, 2011; Williams & Jorge y Jorge, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Williams & Jorge y Jorge, 2008)
Three authors: (Furey et al., 2000)
6 or more authors: (Nakamura et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Estudios de Historia Novohispana
ISSN (print)	1870-9060
Scope