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

Lundstrom, C. C. 2000. “Rapid Diffusive Infiltration of Sodium into Partially Molten Peridotite.” Nature 403 (6769): 527–530.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moran, Thomas G., and Joseph M. Davila. 2004. “Three-Dimensional Polarimetric Imaging of Coronal Mass Ejections.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 305 (5680): 66–70.

A journal article with 3 authors

Esvelt, Kevin M., Jacob C. Carlson, and David R. Liu. 2011. “A System for the Continuous Directed Evolution of Biomolecules.” Nature 472 (7344): 499–503.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Mariathasan, Sanjeev, David S. Weiss, Kim Newton, Jacqueline McBride, Karen O’Rourke, Meron Roose-Girma, Wyne P. Lee, Yvette Weinrauch, Denise M. Monack, and Vishva M. Dixit. 2006. “Cryopyrin Activates the Inflammasome in Response to Toxins and ATP.” Nature 440 (7081): 228–232.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bragg, Steven M. 2011. The New CEO Corporate Leadership Manual. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Morrison, Ron, and Flavio Oquendo, eds. 2005. Software Architecture: 2nd European Workshop, EWSA 2005, Pisa, Italy, June 13-14, 2005. Proceedings. Vol. 3527. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Treschev, Dmitry, and Oleg Zubelevich. 2010. “Width of the Stochastic Layer.” In Introduction to the Perturbation Theory of Hamiltonian Systems, edited by Oleg Zubelevich, 93–106. Springer Monographs in Mathematics. 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 Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies.

Blog post

Hamilton, Kristy. 2016. “What Will The World Actually Look Like At 1.5°C Of Warming?” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-will-the-world-actually-look-like-at-1-point-5c-of-warming/.

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. 1974. Need for a National Weather Modification Reseach Program. B-133202. 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

Warren, Kathryn Lloyd. 2014. “Agents of Change: A New Role for Learners in Online Workplace Training.” Doctoral dissertation, Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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

(nyt), Sophia Kishkovsky. 2001. “World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Recovering The Kursk.” New York Times, October 18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lundstrom 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Lundstrom 2000; Moran and Davila 2004).

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

Two authors: (Moran and Davila 2004)
Three authors: (Esvelt, Carlson, and Liu 2011)
4 or more authors: (Mariathasan et al. 2006)

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