How to format your references using the Latin American Economic Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Latin American Economic Review. 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

Seitz F (2000) Decline of the generalist. Nature 403:483

A journal article with 2 authors

Swaddle JP, Biewener AA (2000) Exercise and reduced muscle mass in starlings. Nature 406:585–586

A journal article with 3 authors

Hull PM, Darroch SAF, Erwin DH (2015) Rarity in mass extinctions and the future of ecosystems. Nature 528:345–351

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Willingham S, Outeiro TF, DeVit MJ, et al (2003) Yeast genes that enhance the toxicity of a mutant huntingtin fragment or alpha-synuclein. Science 302:1769–1772

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kiehl AR, Mays MBC (2016) Atlas for the Diagnosis of Tumors in the Dog and Cat. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ahmad P, Azooz MM, Prasad MNV (eds) (2013) Ecophysiology and Responses of Plants under Salt Stress. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Kinderlehrer D (2011) Remarks About the Free Boundaries Occurring in Variational Inequalities. In: Capriz G, Stampacchia G (eds) New Variational Techniques in Mathematical Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 103–119

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 Economic Review.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) The Gender Gap Of Alcohol Consumption Has Almost Disappeared. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/the-gender-gap-of-alcohol-consumption-has-almost-disappeared/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2005) Information Technology: FBI Is Taking Steps to Develop an Enterprise Architecture, but Much Remains to Be Accomplished. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Chotkevys DL (2009) A grounded theory study to explore how nurses overcome barriers to spiritual care. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Hernández JC, Drucker J (2017) Wooing China Investors With the Trump Name And Offers of U.S. Visas. New York Times A18

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Seitz 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Seitz 2000; Swaddle and Biewener 2000).

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

Two authors: (Swaddle and Biewener 2000)
Three or more authors: (Willingham et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Latin American Economic Review
Abbreviation	Lat. Am. Econ. Rev.
ISSN (print)	2198-3526
ISSN (online)	2196-436X
Scope	General Economics, Econometrics and Finance