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

Patel, D. J. (2014). RNA. Complete pairing not needed. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6209), 542–543.

A journal article with 2 authors

Blunier, T., & Brook, E. J. (2001). Timing of millennial-scale climate change in Antarctica and Greenland during the last glacial period. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5501), 109–112.

A journal article with 3 authors

Appelbaum, I., Huang, B., & Monsma, D. J. (2007). Electronic measurement and control of spin transport in silicon. Nature, 447(7142), 295–298.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Ewald, S. E., Lee, B. L., Lau, L., Wickliffe, K. E., Shi, G.-P., Chapman, H. A., & Barton, G. M. (2008). The ectodomain of Toll-like receptor 9 is cleaved to generate a functional receptor. Nature, 456(7222), 658–662.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hessel, V., Löwe, H., Müller, A., & Kolb, G. (2005). Chemical Micro Process Engineering. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Ammar, A., & Bernstein, M. (Eds.). (2014). Neurosurgical Ethics in Practice: Value-based Medicine. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wu, J.-Z., Ma, H.-Y., & Zhou, M.-D. (2006). Fundamentals of Vorticity Dynamics. In H.-Y. Ma & M.-D. Zhou (Eds.), Vorticity and Vortex Dynamics (pp. 131–200). 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 Mexicana de Trastornos Alimentarios.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2015, June 15). Could You Transfer Your Consciousness To Another Body? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/could-you-transfer-your-consciousness-another-body/

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. (2003). Special Education: Federal Actions Can Assist States in Improving Postsecondary Outcomes for Youth (GAO-03-773). 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

Davidson, J. M. (2010). Transitional age youth—a program expansion to enhance existing services in Sonoma County: A grant-writing project [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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017, September 7). Film Series. New York Times, C22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Patel, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Blunier & Brook, 2001; Patel, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Blunier & Brook, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Ewald et al., 2008)

About the journal

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