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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Latin American Cultural 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

Rubinsztein, David C. 2015. “Cell Biology: Receptors for Selective Recycling.” Nature 522 (7556): 291–292.

A journal article with 2 authors

Piotrowska, K., and M. Zernicka-Goetz. 2001. “Role for Sperm in Spatial Patterning of the Early Mouse Embryo.” Nature 409 (6819): 517–521.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mouchel, Céline F., Karen S. Osmont, and Christian S. Hardtke. 2006. “BRX Mediates Feedback between Brassinosteroid Levels and Auxin Signalling in Root Growth.” Nature 443 (7110): 458–461.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Jones, J. A., V. Vedral V, A. Ekert, and G. Castagnoli. 2000. “Geometric Quantum Computation Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.” Nature 403 (6772): 869–871.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bishop, Charles A. 2015. Roll-to-Roll Vacuum Deposition of Barrier Coatings. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Damm, Werner, and Holger Hermanns, eds. 2007. Computer Aided Verification: 19th International Conference, CAV 2007, Berlin, Germany, July 3-7, 2007. Proceedings. Vol. 4590. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Yi, Zeng, Gu Danan, and Kenneth C. Land. 2006. “A Method for Correcting the Underestimation of Disabled Life Expectancy, with an Empirical Application to Oldest-Old in China.” In Longer Life and Healthy Aging, edited by Zeng Yi, Eileen M. Crimmins, Yves Carrière, and Jean-Marie Robine, 49–69. International Studies in Population. Dordrecht: 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 Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Six Bizarre Feeding Tactics from the Depths of Our Oceans.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/six-bizarre-feeding-tactics-depths-our-oceans/.

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. 2010. Aviation Security: TSA Is Increasing Procurement and Deployment of the Advanced Imaging Technology, but Challenges to This Effort and Other Areas of Aviation Security Remain. GAO-10-484T. 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

Bissell, Goni Hary. 2011. “Working in the Transference as a Multicultural Intervention.” Doctoral dissertation, Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

Chira, Susan. 2016. “Men Need Help. Is Hillary Clinton the Answer?” New York Times, October 21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rubinsztein 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Rubinsztein 2015; Piotrowska and Zernicka-Goetz 2001).

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

Two authors: (Piotrowska and Zernicka-Goetz 2001)
Three authors: (Mouchel, Osmont, and Hardtke 2006)
4 or more authors: (Jones et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies
Abbreviation	J. Lat. Am. Cult. Stud.
ISSN (print)	1356-9325
ISSN (online)	1469-9575
Scope	History Cultural Studies