How to format your references using the Journal of Latinx Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Latinx Psychology. 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

Gilbertson, S. R. (2012). Chemistry. Relay reactions that trap organometallic intermediates. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6113), 1432–1433.

A journal article with 2 authors

Price, W. N., 2nd, & Rai, A. K. (2015). Drug Development. Are trade secrets delaying biosimilars? Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6231), 188–189.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rouse, G. W., Goffredi, S. K., & Vrijenhoek, R. C. (2004). Osedax: bone-eating marine worms with dwarf males. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5684), 668–671.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Han, J., Zheng, Y., Zhao, B., Li, S., Zhang, Y., & Gao, C. (2014). Sequentially hetero-functional, topological polymers by step-growth thiol-yne approach. Scientific Reports, 4, 4387.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Voldman, S. H. (2014). ESD. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Dronamraju, K. R., & Francomano, C. A. (Eds.). (2012). Victor McKusick and the History of Medical Genetics. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cano, A., Navarrete, J. P., & Seade, J. (2013). Geometry and Dynamics of Automorphisms of $$\mathbb{P}^{2}_\mathbb{C}$$. In J. P. Navarrete & J. Seade (Eds.), Complex Kleinian Groups (pp. 93–118). 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 Latinx Psychology.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, June 14). New Frog Sex Position Observed In India. 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. (1988). New L.A. Federal Courthouse: Evidence Is Insufficient To Suggest That Congress Reconsider Its Approval (GGD-88-43BR). 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

Dean, D. O. (2012). A discrete-time multiple event process survival mixture (MEPSUM) model for investigating the order and timing of multiple non-repeatable events [Doctoral dissertation]. University of North Carolina.

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, C. (2012, January 22). Austin Brothers Fill Idiosyncratic Niche at Sundance. New York Times, A27B.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gilbertson, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Gilbertson, 2012; Price & Rai, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Price & Rai, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Han et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Latinx Psychology
ISSN (print)	2578-8086
ISSN (online)	2578-8094
Scope