How to format your references using the Hispanic American Historical Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Hispanic American Historical Review. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Evans, James A. “Computer Science. Future Science.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 342, no. 6154 (October 4, 2013): 44–45.
A journal article with 2 authors
Rieseberg, Loren H., and Kevin Livingstone. “Evolution. Chromosomal Speciation in Primates.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 300, no. 5617 (April 11, 2003): 267–68.
A journal article with 3 authors
Showalter, Mark R., Matthew M. Hedman, and Joseph A. Burns. “The Impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Sends Ripples through the Rings of Jupiter.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 332, no. 6030 (May 6, 2011): 711–13.
A journal article with 11 or more authors
Okamoto, Hideki, Ritsuko Eguchi, Shino Hamao, Hidenori Goto, Kazuma Gotoh, Yusuke Sakai, Masanari Izumi, Yutaka Takaguchi, Shin Gohda, and Yoshihiro Kubozono. “An Extended Phenacene-Type Molecule, [8]Phenacene: Synthesis and Transistor Application.” Scientific Reports 4 (June 17, 2014): 5330.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Ansons, Alec M., and Helen Davis. Diagnosis and Management of Ocular Motility Disorders. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd, 2008.
An edited book
Kunkel, Julian M., and Thomas Ludwig, eds. High Performance Computing: 30th International Conference, ISC High Performance 2015, Frankfurt, Germany, July 12-16, 2015, Proceedings. Vol. 9137. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.
A chapter in an edited book
Reynolds, David, and Irene C. L. Ng. “Four Axiomatic Requirements for Service Systems Research.” In Service Systems Science, edited by Kyoichi Kijima, 69–81. Translational Systems Sciences. Tokyo: Springer Japan, 2015.

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 Hispanic American Historical Review.

Blog post
Bedell-Pearce, Harriet. “Mysterious 15 Meter Sea Creature Found In Indonesia.” IFLScience. IFLScience, May 15, 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/mysterious-15-meter-sea-creature-found-in-indonesia-/.

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. “Information Technology Investment Management: A Framework for Assessing and Improving Process Maturity (Exposure Draft) (Superseded by GAO-04-394G).” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, May 1, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation
Obidos, Charisa. “Attitudes toward and Knowledge of Advance Directives: A Quantitative Study.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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
Feeney, Kelly. “His Spices Are a Secret.” New York Times, November 2, 2008.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal titleHispanic American Historical Review
AbbreviationHisp. Am. Hist. Rev.
ISSN (print)0018-2168
ISSN (online)1527-1900
ScopeHistory
Cultural Studies

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