How to format your references using the RIBAGUA - Revista Iberoamericana del Agua citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for RIBAGUA - Revista Iberoamericana del Agua. 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

[1]

Hoffman S. Save the children. Nature 2004;430:940–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Fauci AS, Marston HD. PUBLIC HEALTH. Toward an HIV vaccine: A scientific journey. Science 2015;349:386–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Junge W, Sielaff H, Engelbrecht S. Torque generation and elastic power transmission in the rotary F(O)F(1)-ATPase. Nature 2009;459:364–70.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

El Albani A, Bengtson S, Canfield DE, Bekker A, Macchiarelli R, Mazurier A, et al. Large colonial organisms with coordinated growth in oxygenated environments 2.1 Gyr ago. Nature 2010;466:100–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bartlett K. The Experience of History. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Li Y. Lasso Peptides: Bacterial Strategies to Make and Maintain Bioactive Entangled Scaffolds. New York, NY: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Beardall J, Raven JA. Limits to Phototrophic Growth in Dense Culture: CO2 Supply and Light. In: Borowitzka MA, Moheimani NR, editors. Algae for Biofuels and Energy, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013, p. 91–7.

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 RIBAGUA - Revista Iberoamericana del Agua.

Blog post

[1]

Taub B. Common Painkiller Could Make You Less Able To Feel Empathy. IFLScience 2016.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Commercial Space: Industry Developments and FAA Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Mathes MD. Exploring Factors That Enabled Financial Advisors and Their Firms to Improve Professional Performance After 2008. Doctoral dissertation. Northcentral University, 2014.

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

[1]

Shear MD, Davenport C. World Awaits President’s Decision on U.S. Future in Paris Accord. New York Times 2017:A8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	RIBAGUA - Revista Iberoamericana del Agua
ISSN (print)	2386-3781
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