How to format your references using the Revista Mexicana de Trastornos Alimentarios citation style

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

Loder, N. (2000). UK advised to step up asteroid hunt. Nature, 407(6802), 275.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bartel, B., & Matsuda, S. P. T. (2003). Plant biology. Seeing red. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5605), 352–353.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wieczorek, M. A., Weiss, B. P., & Stewart, S. T. (2012). An impactor origin for lunar magnetic anomalies. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6073), 1212–1215.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Narymbetov, B., Omerzu, A., Kabanov, V. V., Tokumoto, M., Kobayashi, H., & Mihailovic, D. (2000). Origin of ferromagnetic exchange interactions in a fullerene-organic compound. Nature, 407(6806), 883–885.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ming, D., Glasser, D., Hildebrandt, D., Glasser, B., & Metzer, M. (2016). Attainable Region Theory. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gonzalez-Diaz, R., Jimenez, M.-J., & Medrano, B. (Eds.). (2013). Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery: 17th IAPR International Conference, DGCI 2013, Seville, Spain, March 20-22, 2013. Proceedings (Vol. 7749). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

El-Salhy, M., Hatlebakk, J. G., & Hausken, T. (2015). How is Irritable Bowel Syndrome Diagnosed? In J. G. Hatlebakk & T. Hausken (Eds.), Understanding and Controlling the Irritable Bowel (pp. 39–43). Springer International Publishing.

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 Mexicana de Trastornos Alimentarios.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, August 5). Watch a Great White Attack a SharkCam. 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. (1979). Weaknesses in National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Facilities Utilization Program (PSAD-79-53). 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

Quick, T. D. (2012). Faith-based charter school success at education ground zero [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Greenhouse, L. (2006, March 2). Justices Express Concern Over Aspects of Some Texas Redistricting. New York Times, A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Loder, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Bartel & Matsuda, 2003; Loder, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Bartel & Matsuda, 2003)
Three authors: (Wieczorek et al., 2012)
6 or more authors: (Narymbetov et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Revista Mexicana de Trastornos Alimentarios
Abbreviation	Rev. Mex. Trastor. Aliment.
ISSN (print)	2007-1523
Scope