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

Mayr G (2004) Old World fossil record of modern-type hummingbirds. Science 304:861–864

A journal article with 2 authors

Perea G, Araque A (2007) Astrocytes potentiate transmitter release at single hippocampal synapses. Science 317:1083–1086

A journal article with 3 authors

Blaha G, Stanley RE, Steitz TA (2009) Formation of the first peptide bond: the structure of EF-P bound to the 70S ribosome. Science 325:966–970

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Prockter LM, Ernst CM, Denevi BW, et al (2010) Evidence for young volcanism on Mercury from the third MESSENGER flyby. Science 329:668–671

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Casadella V, Liu Z, Uzunidis D (2015) Innovation Capabilities and Economic Development in Open Economies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Aiello M, Johnsen EB, Dustdar S, Georgievski I (eds) (2016) Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing: 5th IFIP WG 2.14 European Conference, ESOCC 2016, Vienna, Austria, September 5-7, 2016, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Furukawa K, Matsumoto Y, Zhang Q, Furukawa K (2015) Gangliosides Regulate Tumor Properties: With Focus on the Suppression of Metastasis-Associated ppGalNAc-T13 with GM1. In: Suzuki T, Ohtsubo K, Taniguchi N (eds) Sugar Chains: Decoding the Functions of Glycans. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 55–70

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) Why You Should Stack Copper Coins On Your Laptop. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/why-you-should-stack-copper-coins-on-your-laptop/. 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 (1976) Examination of the Treatment of Peer Reviewers’ Comments on Support for the “Individualized Science Instructional System” Project. 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

Alexandre KM (2009) Identifying mechanisms regulating Wnt signaling during postembryonic development. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Isherwood C (2016) The Best Religion? A Believer Answers. New York Times C3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mayr 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Mayr 2004; Perea and Araque 2007).

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

Two authors: (Perea and Araque 2007)
Three or more authors: (Prockter et al. 2010)

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