How to format your references using the Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic 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	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

Lozier, M. Susan. 2010. “Deconstructing the Conveyor Belt.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 328 (5985): 1507–1511.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kilger, Christian, and Kurt Bartenbach. 2002. “Patent Law. New Rules for German Professors.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 298 (5596): 1173–1175.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nørskov, J. K., T. Bligaard, and J. Kleis. 2009. “Chemistry. Rate Control and Reaction Engineering.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 324 (5935): 1655–1656.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Jaganathan, Hamsa, Jacob Gage, Fransisca Leonard, Srimeenakshi Srinivasan, Glauco R. Souza, Bhuvanesh Dave, and Biana Godin. 2014. “Three-Dimensional in Vitro Co-Culture Model of Breast Tumor Using Magnetic Levitation.” Scientific Reports 4 (October): 6468.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bécherrawy, Tamer. 2012. Mechanical and Electromagnetic Vibrations and Waves. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Howard, Andrew, Karl Iagnemma, and Alonzo Kelly, eds. 2010. Field and Service Robotics: Results of the 7th International Conference. Vol. 62. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lohmann, Niels, and Karsten Wolf. 2014. “From Artifacts to Activities.” In Web Services Foundations, edited by Athman Bouguettaya, Quan Z. Sheng, and Florian Daniel, 109–135. New York, NY: 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 Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. 2016. “Juno Returns Amazing First Image Of Jupiter And Its Moons From Orbit.” 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. 1990. Serious Shortcomings in FAA’s Training Program Must Be Remedied. T-RCED-90-86. 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

Coles, Jon. 2017. “The Balancing of Parental Support and Pressure in Fostering Collegiate Athletes.” Doctoral dissertation, Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral 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

Wilford, John Noble. 2016. “Intertwined Circles of Faith.” New York Times, November 7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lozier 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Lozier 2010; Kilger and Bartenbach 2002).

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

Two authors: (Kilger and Bartenbach 2002)
Three authors: (Nørskov, Bligaard, and Kleis 2009)
4 or more authors: (Jaganathan et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies
Abbreviation	Lat. Am. Caribb. Ethn. Stud.
ISSN (print)	1744-2222
ISSN (online)	1744-2230
Scope	Sociology and Political Science Anthropology Cultural Studies