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

Tomioka, Katsuhiro. 2015. “Condensed-Matter Physics: Flat Transistor Defies the Limit.” Nature 526 (7571): 51–52.

A journal article with 2 authors

Robeva, Raina, and Reinhard Laubenbacher. 2009. “Mathematical Biology Education: Beyond Calculus.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 325 (5940): 542–543.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fan, Changzeng, Jian Li, and Limin Wang. 2014. “Phase Transitions, Mechanical Properties and Electronic Structures of Novel Boron Phases under High-Pressure: A First-Principles Study.” Scientific Reports 4 (October): 6786.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kumar, Anoop, James W. Godwin, Phillip B. Gates, A. Acely Garza-Garcia, and Jeremy P. Brockes. 2007. “Molecular Basis for the Nerve Dependence of Limb Regeneration in an Adult Vertebrate.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 318 (5851): 772–777.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fischer, Dena J., Nathaniel S. Treister, and Andres Pinto. 2013. Risk Assessment and Oral Diagnostics in Clinical Dentistry. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Salakoski, Tapio, Filip Ginter, Sampo Pyysalo, and Tapio Pahikkala, eds. 2006. Advances in Natural Language Processing: 5th International Conference on NLP, FinTAL 2006 Turku, Finland, August 23-25, 2006 Proceedings. Vol. 4139. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gonzàlez-Alujas, Maria Teresa, and Artur Evangelista Masip. 2016. “Echocardiography in Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis.” In Infective Endocarditis: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Imaging, Therapy, and Prevention, edited by Gilbert Habib, 37–50. 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 Latin American Cultural Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Rats Recognize Expressions Of Pain.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 1991. Aircraft Maintenance: Additional FAA Oversight Needed of Aging Aircraft Repairs (Vol. I). RCED-91-91A. 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

Meluzzi, Dario. 2013. “Computational Analysis of DNA Interactions to Investigate the Spatial Organization of Chromatin.” Doctoral dissertation, La Jolla, CA: University of California San Diego.

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

Kelly, Jim. 2013. “Figuring Out Who Really Had the Last Word in the Bush White House.” New York Times, October 22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tomioka 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Tomioka 2015; Robeva and Laubenbacher 2009).

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

Two authors: (Robeva and Laubenbacher 2009)
Three authors: (Fan, Li, and Wang 2014)
4 or more authors: (Kumar et al. 2007)

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