How to format your references using the Aula Abierta citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Aula Abierta. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Romani, R. W. (2014). Astronomy. Pulsar beams--big and bright. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6180), 159–160.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stoneburner, R. L., & Low-Beer, D. (2004). Population-level HIV declines and behavioral risk avoidance in Uganda. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5671), 714–718.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lin, D. Y.-W., Huang, S., & Chen, J. (2015). Crystal structures of a polypeptide processing and secretion transporter. Nature, 523(7561), 425–430.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Maira, S. M., Galetic, I., Brazil, D. P., Kaech, S., Ingley, E., Thelen, M., & Hemmings, B. A. (2001). Carboxyl-terminal modulator protein (CTMP), a negative regulator of PKB/Akt and v-Akt at the plasma membrane. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5541), 374–380.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Numai, T. (2010). Laser Diodes and their Applications to Communications and Information Processing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Arumugam, S., & Smyth, W. F. (Eds.). (2012). Combinatorial Algorithms: 23rd International Workshop, IWOCA 2012, Tamil Nadu, India, July 19-21, 2012, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 7643). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Slee, B. (2007). Landscape goods and services related to forestry land use. In Ü. Mander, H. Wiggering, & K. Helming (Eds.), Multifunctional Land Use: Meeting Future Demands for Landscape Goods and Services (pp. 65–82). Springer.

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 Aula Abierta.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, May 26). Students Launch Rocket With A 3D-Printed Engine. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/students-launch-rocket-totally-3d-printed-engine/

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. (2003). Aviation Assistance: Information on Payments Made Under the Disaster Relief and Insurance Reimbursement Programs (GAO-03-1156R). 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

Bauer, S. L. (2017). Work-Life Balanced Culture, Work Flexibility, and Inducements: Impact on Perceived Organizational Attractiveness and Job Pursuit Intention [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois 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

Stewart, J. B. (2017, April 27). Tax Cuts for Everybody, and Responsibility for Nobody. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Romani, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Romani, 2014; Stoneburner & Low-Beer, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Stoneburner & Low-Beer, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Maira et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aula Abierta
ISSN (print)	0210-2773
Scope	Education