How to format your references using the Latin American Perspectives citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Latin American Perspectives (LAP). 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	Download the output style file
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

Woollings, Tim

2011 “Atmospheric science. Ocean effects of blocking.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 334 (6056): 612–613

A journal article with 2 authors

Hemingway, Janet and Alister Craig

2004 “Parasitology. New ways to control malaria.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 303 (5666): 1984–1985

A journal article with 3 authors

Moore, Jonathan D., Jane A. Kirk, and Tim Hunt

2003 “Unmasking the S-phase-promoting potential of cyclin B1.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 300 (5621): 987–990

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ma, Yandong, Ying Dai, Wei Wei, Baibiao Huang, and Myung-Hwan Whangbo

2014 “Strain-induced quantum spin Hall effect in methyl-substituted germanane GeCH3.” Scientific reports 4: 7297

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Frank, Patricia and M. Alice Ottoboni

2011 The Dose Makes the Poison. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pinkerton, Kent E. and William N. Rom (Eds.)

2014 Global Climate Change and Public Health. Respiratory Medicine Vol. 7. New York, NY: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Lagerlund, Henrik

2008 “The Unity of the Soul and Contrary Appetites in Medieval Philosophy.” pp. 75–91 in Thomas M. Lennon and Robert J. Stainton (eds.), The Achilles of Rationalist Psychology, Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

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 Perspectives.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise

2015, August 12 “Potential Obesity-Contributing Gene Identified.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/potential-obesity-contributing-gene-identified/ (accessed October 30, 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

2011 School Meal Programs: More Systematic Development of Specifications Could Improve the Safety of Foods Purchased through USDA’s Commodity Program ( No. GAO-11-376). 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

Goggin, Sarah

2009 The European Capital of Culture: The politics of a becoming Europe (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA

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

Billard, Mary

2010, May 13 “Scouting Report.” New York Times p. E6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Woollings, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Hemingway & Craig, 2004, Woollings, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Hemingway & Craig, 2004)
Three authors: (Moore, Kirk, & Hunt, 2003)
4 or more authors: (Ma et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Latin American Perspectives
Abbreviation	Lat. Am. Perspect.
ISSN (print)	0094-582X
ISSN (online)	1552-678X
Scope	Geography, Planning and Development Sociology and Political Science