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]

Yamanaka S. Genome-sequencing anniversary. Of mice and humans. Science 2011;331:873.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Raes F, Swart R. Climate change. Climate assessment: what’s next? Science 2007;318:1386.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Hoehler TM, Bebout BM, Des Marais DJ. The role of microbial mats in the production of reduced gases on the early Earth. Nature 2001;412:324–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Leaver M, Domínguez-Cuevas P, Coxhead JM, Daniel RA, Errington J. Life without a wall or division machine in Bacillus subtilis. Nature 2009;457:849–53.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Smith JT. Methods of Geometry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1999.

An edited book

[1]

Decker BD, Dittmann J, Kraetzer C, Vielhauer C, editors. Communications and Multimedia Security: 14th IFIP TC 6/TC 11 International Conference, CMS 2013, Magdeburg, Germany, September 25-26, 2013. Proceedings. vol. 8099. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Davenport M. Shock. In: Sinha CK, Davenport M, editors. Handbook of Pediatric Surgery, London: Springer; 2010, p. 25–8.

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]

Andrews R. This Artificial Retina Could Revolutionize The Way We Treat Sight Loss. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/artificial-retina-revolutionize-treat-sight-loss/ (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. Federal Transit Administration: Bus Rapid Transit Offers Communities a Flexible Mass Transit Option. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Garcia CA. Tracking chemistry self-efficacy and achievement in a preparatory chemistry course. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, 2010.

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]

Gustines GG. Diversity Comes to Superheroes. New York Times 2015:D1.

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

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