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

Marx, Vivien. 2014. “Cell Communication: Stop the Microbial Chatter.” Nature 511 (7510): 493–497.

A journal article with 2 authors

Treguer, P., and P. Pondaven. 2000. “Global Change. Silica Control of Carbon Dioxide.” Nature 406 (6794): 358–359.

A journal article with 3 authors

Meyer, Jannik C., Matthieu Paillet, and Siegmar Roth. 2005. “Single-Molecule Torsional Pendulum.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 309 (5740): 1539–1541.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Shen, Qian-Hua, Yusuke Saijo, Stefan Mauch, Christoph Biskup, Stéphane Bieri, Beat Keller, Hikaru Seki, Bekir Ulker, Imre E. Somssich, and Paul Schulze-Lefert. 2007. “Nuclear Activity of MLA Immune Receptors Links Isolate-Specific and Basal Disease-Resistance Responses.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 315 (5815): 1098–1103.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Seyfried, Thomas N. 2012. Cancer as a Metabolic Disease. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Heather, James, Steve Schneider, and Vanessa Teague, eds. 2013. E-Voting and Identify: 4th International Conference, Vote-ID 2013, Guildford, UK, July 17-19, 2013. Proceedings. Vol. 7985. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Shult, Ernest, and David Surowski. 2015. “Permutation Groups and Group Actions.” In Algebra: A Teaching and Source Book, edited by David Surowski, 105–136. 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 Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Science Facts Behind Dr Who Sonic Screwdriver Are Even More Exciting Than Fiction.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/science-facts-behind-dr-who-sonic-screwdriver-are-even-more-exciting-fiction/.

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. 1986. Designing Evaluations: A Workbook. 129366. 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

Savvas, Catherine. 2010. “Hydroclimate Variability and Landuse Effects on Nutrient Export from Watersheds in the Mid-Atlantic United States.” Doctoral dissertation, Chapel Hill, NC: 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

Gustines, George Gene. 2015. “Iceman Comes Out.” 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 (Marx 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Marx 2014; Treguer and Pondaven 2000).

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

Two authors: (Treguer and Pondaven 2000)
Three authors: (Meyer, Paillet, and Roth 2005)
4 or more authors: (Shen et al. 2007)

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

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