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

Clarke J (2003) Physics. Flux qubit completes the hat trick. Science 299:1850–1851

A journal article with 2 authors

Bloom K, Joglekar A (2010) Towards building a chromosome segregation machine. Nature 463:446–456

A journal article with 3 authors

Eagleman DM, Jacobson JE, Sejnowski TJ (2004) Perceived luminance depends on temporal context. Nature 428:854–856

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sepúlveda J, Wendler JE, Summons RE, Hinrichs K-U (2009) Rapid resurgence of marine productivity after the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction. Science 326:129–132

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety (2010) A Practical Approach to Hazard Identification for Operations and Maintenance Workers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Brouwer AE (2012) Spectra of Graphs. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Ding N (2015) On Zero-Knowledge with Strict Polynomial-Time Simulation and Extraction from Differing-Input Obfuscation for Circuits. In: Lehmann A, Wolf S (eds) Information Theoretic Security: 8th International Conference, ICITS 2015, Lugano, Switzerland, May 2-5, 2015. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 51–68

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

Carpineti A (2017) A Giant Ringed Planet Is Likely The Cause Of Mysterious Eclipses. In: IFLScience. 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 (2003) Aviation Safety: FAA Needs to Update Curriculum and Certification Requirements for Aviation Mechanics. 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

Murray BA (2015) Sociocultural factors in women’s health in Swaziland. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana 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

Rich N (2013) Just Roll, Baby. New York Times MM24

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Clarke 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Clarke 2003; Bloom and Joglekar 2010).

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

Two authors: (Bloom and Joglekar 2010)
Three or more authors: (Sepúlveda et al. 2009)

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