How to format your references using the IEEE Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologias del Aprendizaje citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologias del Aprendizaje. 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

[1]

T. Wyatt, “High-energy colliders and the rise of the standard model,” Nature, vol. 448, no. 7151, pp. 274–280, Jul. 2007.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

K. S. Law and A. Stohl, “Arctic air pollution: origins and impacts,” Science, vol. 315, no. 5818, pp. 1537–1540, Mar. 2007.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

I. McDougall, F. H. Brown, and J. G. Fleagle, “Stratigraphic placement and age of modern humans from Kibish, Ethiopia,” Nature, vol. 433, no. 7027, pp. 733–736, Feb. 2005.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Z. Gu et al., “S-nitrosylation of matrix metalloproteinases: signaling pathway to neuronal cell death,” Science, vol. 297, no. 5584, pp. 1186–1190, Aug. 2002.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Samuels, Reading the American Novel 1780-1865. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

M. K. Zaidi, Ed., Wastewater Reuse–Risk Assessment, Decision-Making and Environmental Security. in NATO Science for Peace and Security Series. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H. J. Thompson, W. Jiang, and Z. Zhu, “Energetics and Cancer: Exploring a Road Less Traveled,” in Physical Activity, Dietary Calorie Restriction, and Cancer, A. McTiernan, Ed., New York, NY: Springer, 2011, pp. 55–67.

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 IEEE Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologias del Aprendizaje.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, “Millions of Dog Mummies Discovered in Catacombs of Anubis,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/millions-dog-mummies-discovered-catacombs-anubis/

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, “Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellites: With Costs Increasing and Data Continuity at Risk, Improvements Needed in Tri-agency Decision Making,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-09-564, Jun. 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. C. Hausmann, “Organizing Ecosystems for Social Innovation: The Relationality of Contexts and Mechanisms in a Social Entrepreneurship Network,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 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

[1]

J. Wagner, “Mets Enter Off-Season With One Big Question and Many Decisions,” New York Times, p. B9, Oct. 07, 2016.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1], [2].
This sentence cites four references [1], [2], [3], [4].

About the journal

Full journal title	IEEE Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologias del Aprendizaje
ISSN (print)	1932-8540
Scope	General Engineering Education