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

Shubin, N. (2012). Farish A. Jenkins Jr (1940-2012). Nature, 492(7427), 42.

A journal article with 2 authors

Olsen, S. R., & Wilson, R. I. (2008). Lateral presynaptic inhibition mediates gain control in an olfactory circuit. Nature, 452(7190), 956–960.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, Y., Moon, K.-S., & Wong, C. P. (2005). Materials science. Electronics without lead. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5727), 1419–1420.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Missler, M., Zhang, W., Rohlmann, A., Kattenstroth, G., Hammer, R. E., Gottmann, K., & Südhof, T. C. (2003). Alpha-neurexins couple Ca2+ channels to synaptic vesicle exocytosis. Nature, 423(6943), 939–948.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Woolley, T. (2013). Low Impact Building. John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Armstrong, R., & Durnescu, I. (Eds.). (2016). Parole and Beyond: International Experiences of Life After Prison. Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Sandberg, R., & Rollins, M. (2013). Develop Apps Like a Pro. In M. Rollins (Ed.), The Business of Android Apps Development: Making and Marketing Apps that Succeed on Google Play, Amazon App Store and More (pp. 51–62). Apress.

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

Taub, B. (2016, September 23). Horses Learn To Communicate With Humans In Study. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/horses-learn-to-communicate-with-humans-in-study/

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. (2012). IT Supply Chain: National Security-Related Agencies Need to Better Address Risks (GAO-12-361). 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

Darnell, C. (2017). Sharecropping in Higher Education: Case Study of the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University - Florida State University Joint College of Engineering [Doctoral dissertation]. Indiana 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

Dunn, S. (2015, December 13). Who Lives, Who Dies. New York Times, BR39.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shubin, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Olsen & Wilson, 2008; Shubin, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Olsen & Wilson, 2008)
Three authors: (Li et al., 2005)
6 or more authors: (Missler et al., 2003)

About the journal

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