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

Coontz, Robert

2012 “Mysteries of astronomy.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 336 (6085): 1090

A journal article with 2 authors

Rubin, Jonathan D. and Dylan J. Taatjes

2015 “Molecular biology: Mediating transcription and RNA export.” Nature 526 (7572): 199–200

A journal article with 3 authors

Grantab, Rassin, Vivek B. Shenoy, and Rodney S. Ruoff

2010 “Anomalous strength characteristics of tilt grain boundaries in graphene.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 330 (6006): 946–948

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Engel, Anja, Silke Thoms, Ulf Riebesell, Emma Rochelle-Newall, and Ingrid Zondervan

2004 “Polysaccharide aggregation as a potential sink of marine dissolved organic carbon.” Nature 428 (6986): 929–932

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zauderer, Erich

2006 Partial Differential Equations of Applied Mathematics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bresinsky, Andreas

2013 Strasburger’s Plant Sciences: Including Prokaryotes and Fungi. (Christian Körner, Joachim W. Kadereit, Gunther Neuhaus, and Uwe Sonnewald, eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Evers, Colin W.

2012 “Organisational Contexts for Lifelong Learning: Individual and Collective Learning Configurations.” pp. 61–76 in David N. Aspin, Judith Chapman, Karen Evans, and Richard Bagnall (eds.), Second International Handbook of Lifelong Learning. 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

Hale, Tom

2017, January 11 “Hikers Film A Beautiful Spinning Ice Disk On A Frozen River.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/hikers-film-a-beautiful-spinning-ice-disk-on-a-frozen-lake/ (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

1998 Civil Agencies Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments ( No. AA-98-29(2)). 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

Morrow, Steven T.

2012 Coboundary theorems for collections of random variables with moment conditions (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

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

Walsh, Mary Williams

2015, July 30 “Nonpayment on Bonds Would Have Consequences for Puerto Rico.” New York Times p. B3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Coontz, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Coontz, 2012, Rubin & Taatjes, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Rubin & Taatjes, 2015)
Three authors: (Grantab, Shenoy, & Ruoff, 2010)
4 or more authors: (Engel et al., 2004)

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