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

Montesi, Laurent G. J. 2013. “Planetary Science. Solving the Mascon Mystery.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 340 (6140): 1535–1536.

A journal article with 2 authors

Limardo, Alexander J., and Alexandra Z. Worden. 2015. “Microbiology: Exclusive Networks in the Sea.” Nature 522 (7554): 36–37.

A journal article with 3 authors

Amari, Tahar, Jean-François Luciani, and Jean-Jacques Aly. 2015. “Small-Scale Dynamo Magnetism as the Driver for Heating the Solar Atmosphere.” Nature 522 (7555): 188–191.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Reithmaier, J. P., G. Sek, A. Löffler, C. Hofmann, S. Kuhn, S. Reitzenstein, L. V. Keldysh, V. D. Kulakovskii, T. L. Reinecke, and A. Forchel. 2004. “Strong Coupling in a Single Quantum Dot-Semiconductor Microcavity System.” Nature 432 (7014): 197–200.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gutiérrez, Íñigo, Juan Meléndez, and Erik Hernández. 2007. Design and Characterization of Integrated Varactors for RF Applications. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ghasemi, Abdollah. 2012. Propagation Engineering in Wireless Communications. Edited by Ali Abedi and Farshid Ghasemi. 1st ed. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Allainmat, L., A. Baskin, T. De Perrot, M. Eiber, M. Souvatzoglou, and J-P Vallée. 2013. “Prostate Cancers.” In Atlas of PET/MR Imaging in Oncology, edited by Osman Ratib, Markus Schwaiger, and Thomas Beyer, 61–90. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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

Carpineti, Alfredo. 2015. “What Is A White Hole?” 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. 1973. Bureau of Indian Affairs Contracts for Automatic Data Processing Management Services, and for Development of a Management Information System at the Colorado River Indian Reservation. B-114868. 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

Frederiksen, Matthew David. 2013. “Engaging Physicians to Support Corporate Compliance Programs: A Grounded Theory Study.” Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Otis, John. 2016. “Overcoming Setbacks and Gaining a Certification.” New York Times, November 14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Montesi 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Montesi 2013; Limardo and Worden 2015).

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

Two authors: (Limardo and Worden 2015)
Three authors: (Amari, Luciani, and Aly 2015)
4 or more authors: (Reithmaier et al. 2004)

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