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

Abbott, A. (2012). Cognition: The brain’s decline. Nature, 492(7427), S4-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Clardy, J., & Walsh, C. (2004). Lessons from natural molecules. Nature, 432(7019), 829–837.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chuang, S.-T., Kuo, Y.-H., & Su, M.-J. (2014). Antifibrotic effects of KS370G, a caffeamide derivative, in renal ischemia-reperfusion injured mice and renal tubular epithelial cells. Scientific Reports, 4, 5814.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hsieh, Y.-D., Iyonaga, Y., Sakaguchi, Y., Yokoyama, S., Inaba, H., Minoshima, K., Hindle, F., Araki, T., & Yasui, T. (2014). Spectrally interleaved, comb-mode-resolved spectroscopy using swept dual terahertz combs. Scientific Reports, 4, 3816.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Budisa, N. (2005). Engineering the Genetic Code. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Beynen, P. E. van (Ed.). (2011). Karst Management. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Daun, H. (2006). Privatisation, Decentralisation and Governance in Education in the Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, and Sweden. In J. Zajda (Ed.), Decentralisation and Privatisation in Education: The Role of the State (pp. 75–96). Springer Netherlands.

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, E. (2014, March 22). Live From The International Space Station! IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/live-international-space-station/

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. (1975). Need for Improvements in the Automated Payroll System of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (FGMSD-75-31). 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

Nguyen, D. N. (2012). Career decision process of first generation Vietnamese American college students [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

Shear, M. D., & Goodnough, A. (2017, August 10). President Is Preparing to Declare a National Emergency Over the Opioid Epidemic. New York Times, A13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2012; Clardy & Walsh, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Clardy & Walsh, 2004)
Three authors: (Chuang et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Hsieh et al., 2014)

About the journal

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