How to format your references using the Revista Latinoamericana de Recursos Naturales citation style

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

Lucas, R., 2010. Journal club. A neuroscientist explores the network of cells in the retina. Nature, 464(7285): 11, ISSN: 1476-4687.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sutton, P. J. & Kusmartsev, F. V., 2013. Gravitational vortices and clump formation in Saturn’s F ring during an encounter with Prometheus. Scientific reports, 3: 1276, ISSN: 2045-2322.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kavanagh, K. D.; Evans, A. R. & Jernvall, J., 2007. Predicting evolutionary patterns of mammalian teeth from development. Nature, 449(7161): 427–432, ISSN: 1476-4687.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hassey, R.; Swain, E. J.; Hammer, N. I.; Venkataraman, D. & Barnes, M. D., 2006. Probing the chiroptical response of a single molecule. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5804): 1437–1439, ISSN: 1095-9203.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sedivy, J. & Carlson, G., 2011. Sold on Language. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, ISBN: 9780470978146.

An edited book

Santarcángelo, J. E.; Justo, O. & Cooney, P. (eds.). 2016. Latin America after the Financial Crisis: Economic Ramifications from Heterodox Perspectives. (ser. Palgrave Studies in Latin American Heterodox Economics), New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US, X, 255 p p., ISBN: 9781349564873.

A chapter in an edited book

Jia, Y.-H.; Chen, W.-N.; Zhang, J. & Li, J.-J., 2014. Generating Software Test Data by Particle Swarm Optimization. In: Dick, G., Browne, W. N., Whigham, P., Zhang, M., Bui, L. T., Ishibuchi, H., Jin, Y., Li, X., Shi, Y., Singh, P., Tan, K. C. & Tang, K. (eds.), Simulated Evolution and Learning: 10th International Conference, SEAL 2014, Dunedin, New Zealand, December 15-18, 2014. Proceedings, (ser. Lecture Notes in Computer Science), Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 37–47, ISBN: 9783319135625.

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 Latinoamericana de Recursos Naturales.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., . 2016. Incredible New Images Of Mars Are So High-Res, You Can See Beagle 2 On The Surface. IFLScience, IFLScience, Available: <https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-technique-shows-hi-res-mars-space/>, [Consulted: 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, 2005. Space Acquisitions: Stronger Development Practices and Investment Planning Needed to Address Continuing Problems. no. GAO-05-891T, 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

Lapizco-Encinas, G. C., 2009. Cooperative particle swarm optimization for combinatorial problems. Doctoral dissertation, College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Tabuchi, H., 2017. Kochs’ Strategy to Court Allies: Gospel and Gas. New York Times, 5 January, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lucas, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Lucas, 2010; Sutton & Kusmartsev, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Sutton & Kusmartsev, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Hassey et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Revista Latinoamericana de Recursos Naturales
ISSN (print)	1870-0667
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