How to format your references using the Revista de Contabilidad citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Revista de Contabilidad. 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

Wijnen, H. (2009). Circadian rhythms. A circadian loop asSIRTs itself. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5927), 598–599.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bollinger, J. M., Jr, & Matthews, M. L. (2010). Biochemistry. Remote enzyme microsurgery. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5971), 1337–1338.

A journal article with 3 authors

Charlson, R. J., Valero, F. P. J., & Seinfeld, J. H. (2005). Atmospheric science. In search of balance. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5723), 806–807.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Beaugrand, G., Brander, K. M., Alistair Lindley, J., Souissi, S., & Reid, P. C. (2003). Plankton effect on cod recruitment in the North Sea. Nature, 426(6967), 661–664.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dimond, B. C. (2008). Legal Aspects of Radiography and Radiology. Blackwell Science Ltd.

An edited book

O’Connell, A. F., Nichols, J. D., & Karanth, K. U. (Eds.). (2011). Camera Traps in Animal Ecology: Methods and Analyses. Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Mak, P.-I., & Martins, R. P. (2012). A High-Voltage-Enabled Mobile-TV RF Front-End in 90-nm CMOS. In R. P. Martins (Ed.), High-/Mixed-Voltage Analog and RF Circuit Techniques for Nanoscale CMOS (pp. 55–79). Springer.

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 Revista de Contabilidad.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, July 4). Sign Language Produces Color Visions In People With Synaesthesia. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1989). ADP Planning: SSA’s February 1989 Report on Computer Modernization Is Incomplete (IMTEC-89-76). 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

Butler-Roberts, J. (2017). Fashioning distinction: construction of identity through dress and photography in nineteenth-century Paris [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Gorman, J. (2017, February 13). More Than the Sum of Its Parts. New York Times, D6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wijnen, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Bollinger & Matthews, 2010; Wijnen, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Bollinger & Matthews, 2010)
Three authors: (Charlson et al., 2005)
6 or more authors: (Beaugrand et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Revista de Contabilidad
ISSN (print)	1138-4891
Scope	Accounting