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]

Riordan M. The suspense of strangeness. Nature 2001;409:457.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Verchère A, Menon AK. Structural biology: Lipid gymnastics. Nature 2015;524:420–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Suvà ML, Riggi N, Bernstein BE. Epigenetic reprogramming in cancer. Science 2013;339:1567–70.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Ni CY, Murphy MP, Golde TE, Carpenter G. gamma -Secretase cleavage and nuclear localization of ErbB-4 receptor tyrosine kinase. Science 2001;294:2179–81.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Ben Mahmoud MS, Guerber C, Larrieu N, Pirovano A, Radzik J. Aeronautical Air-Ground Data Link Communications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Giaoutzi M, Sapio B, editors. Recent Developments in Foresight Methodologies. vol. 1. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Arantes AA. Beyond Tradition: Cultural Mediation in the Safeguarding of ICH. In: Arizpe L, Amescua C, editors. Anthropological Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage, Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing; 2013, p. 39–55.

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]

Hale T. Check Out These Amazing Artworks Created With Microbes In A Petri Dish. IFLScience 2015.

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. Denver International Airport. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Wells RE. Managers’ affective expressions as determinants of employee responses to change: Valence, inappropriateness and authenticity. Doctoral dissertation. Columbia University, 2008.

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]

Kelly H. Evolving. New York Times 2016:BR17.

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