How to format your references using the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies. 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	Download the output style file
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

Maxmen, Amy. 2011. “Pharmacogenomics: Playing the Odds.” Nature 474 (7350): S9-10.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lansbury, Peter T., and Hilal A. Lashuel. 2006. “A Century-Old Debate on Protein Aggregation and Neurodegeneration Enters the Clinic.” Nature 443 (7113): 774–779.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tsiavaliaris, Georgios, Setsuko Fujita-Becker, and Dietmar J. Manstein. 2004. “Molecular Engineering of a Backwards-Moving Myosin Motor.” Nature 427 (6974): 558–561.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Feinberg, Adam W., Alex Feigel, Sergey S. Shevkoplyas, Sean Sheehy, George M. Whitesides, and Kevin Kit Parker. 2007. “Muscular Thin Films for Building Actuators and Powering Devices.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 317 (5843): 1366–1370.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heitz, Ewald, and Gerhard Kreysa. 2005. Grundlagen Der Technischen Elektrochemie. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Roos, Vera, ed. 2016. Understanding Relational and Group Experiences through the Mmogo-Method®. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Ramos, Nuno M. M., João M. P. Q. Delgado, Ricardo M. S. F. Almeida, Maria L. Simões, and Sofia Manuel. 2016. “Case Study.” In Application of Data Mining Techniques in the Analysis of Indoor Hygrothermal Conditions, edited by João M. P. Q. Delgado, Ricardo M. S. F. Almeida, Maria L. Simões, and Sofia Manuel, 31–36. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Cham: 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 Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies.

Blog post

Taub, Ben. 2016. “Lack Of Activity In The Brain’s Empathy Center May Explain Psychopathic Personality Types.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/lack-activity-brain-empathy-center-explain-psychopathic-personality-types/.

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. 1976. Construction of a Computer Facilities Building by the Social Security Administration: Justification and Alternatives. HRD-77-8. Washington, DC: 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

Jones, Erica. 2019. “Leadership Practices in K-12 Public Schools for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: A Qualitative Study.” Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Bray, Chad. 2017. “Payments Firm In Britain Draws 2 Bids For Takeover.” New York Times, July 4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Maxmen 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Maxmen 2011; Lansbury and Lashuel 2006).

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

Two authors: (Lansbury and Lashuel 2006)
Three authors: (Tsiavaliaris, Fujita-Becker, and Manstein 2004)
4 or more authors: (Feinberg et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies
ISSN (print)	1470-1847
ISSN (online)	1469-9524
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