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]

Check E. Malta provides loophole for breast-cancer screen. Nature 2002;419:767.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wright SI, Barrett SCH. Evolution. The long-term benefits of self-rejection. Science 2010;330:459–60.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Magavi SS, Leavitt BR, Macklis JD. Induction of neurogenesis in the neocortex of adult mice. Nature 2000;405:951–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Rauschhuber C, Mueck-Haeusl M, Zhang W, Nettelbeck DM, Ehrhardt A. RNAi suppressor P19 can be broadly exploited for enhanced adenovirus replication and microRNA knockdown experiments. Sci Rep 2013;3:1363.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Stauffer HB. Contemporary Bayesian and Frequentist Statistical Research Methods for Natural Resource Scientists. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

[1]

Valencia-García R, Lagos-Ortiz K, Alcaraz-Mármol G, del Cioppo J, Vera-Lucio N, editors. Technologies and Innovation: Second International Conference, CITI 2016, Guayaquil, Ecuador, November 23-25, 2016, Proceedings. vol. 658. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bertolino A, De Angelis G, Frantzen L, Polini A. The PLASTIC Framework and Tools for Testing Service-Oriented Applications. In: Lucia AD, Ferrucci F, editors. Software Engineering: International Summer Schools, ISSSE 2006-2008, Salerno, Italy, Revised Tutorial Lectures, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 106–39.

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]

Hamilton K. A New Twist To Whodunnit In Science’s Famous Piltdown Man Hoax. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/a-new-twist-to-whodunnit-in-sciences-famous-piltdown-man-hoax/ (accessed 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Students With Disabilities: More Information and Guidance Could Improve Opportunities in Physical Education and Athletics. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Harris SK. Dissecting the Disappearing Act: Discussing the Dissipation of Black Male Role Models in Black Communities. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, 2017.

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]

Roach M. Not an Accident. New York Times 2016:BR8.

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
Scope