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

Schadt, E. (2011). Genome-sequencing anniversary. First steps on a long road. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6018), 691.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shorter, J., & Lindquist, S. (2004). Hsp104 catalyzes formation and elimination of self-replicating Sup35 prion conformers. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5678), 1793–1797.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, R.-P., Chew, K.-H., & He, S. (2013). Dynamic control of collapse in a vortex Airy beam. Scientific Reports, 3, 1406.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Farquhar, J., Savarino, J., Jackson, T. L., & Thiemens, M. H. (2000). Evidence of atmospheric sulphur in the martian regolith from sulphur isotopes in meteorites. Nature, 404(6773), 50–52.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paterson, S., & Tobias, K. (2012). Atlas of ear diseases of the dog and cat. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,.

An edited book

Deng, H., Miao, D., Lei, J., & Wang, F. L. (Eds.). (2011). Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence: Third International Conference, AICI 2011, Taiyuan, China, September 24-25, 2011, Proceedings, Part II (Vol. 7003). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Patil, M., & Rodey, P. (2015). Buck Converter in Closed Loop. In P. Rodey (Ed.), Control Systems for Power Electronics: A Practical Guide (pp. 29–37). Springer India.

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

Andrew, E. (2014, March 13). Drone Quadcopter Explores Volcanic Eruption. 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. (1998). VA Information Technology: Improvements Needed to Implement Legislative Reforms (AIMD-98-154). 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

Smith, C. A. (2014). Teacher and Student Perceptions of Bullying at Leclaire School [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois 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

Kanter, J. (2017, February 15). E.U. Lawmakers Approve Canada Trade Deal, in Message to Trump. New York Times, B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schadt, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Schadt, 2011; Shorter & Lindquist, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Shorter & Lindquist, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Farquhar et al., 2000)

About the journal

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