How to format your references using the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies. 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	Download the output style file
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

Diamond, Jared. 2004. “Anthropology. The Astonishing Micropygmies.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 306 (5704): 2047–2048.

A journal article with 2 authors

Morris, Richard G., and Marc Barthelemy. 2013. “Interdependent Networks: The Fragility of Control.” Scientific Reports 3 (September 2013): 2764.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yuasa, S., T. Nagahama, and Y. Suzuki. 2002. “Spin-Polarized Resonant Tunneling in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 297 (5579): 234–237.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Eisenberg, D., E. M. Marcotte, I. Xenarios, and T. O. Yeates. 2000. “Protein Function in the Post-Genomic Era.” Nature 405 (6788): 823–826.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wexler, Steve, Jeffrey Shaffer, and Andy Cotgreave. 2017. The Big Book of Dashboards. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Calderwood, Stuart K., Michael Y. Sherman, and Daniel R. Ciocca, eds. 2007. Heat Shock Proteins in Cancer. Vol. 2. Heat Shock Proteins. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Blakeley, M., A. J. K. Gilboa, J. Habash, J. R. Helliwell, D. Myles, and J. Raftery. 2006. “Neutron Protein Crystallography: Technical Aspects and Some Case Studies at Current Capabilities and Beyond.” In Neutron Scattering in Biology: Techniques and Applications, edited by Thomas Gutberlet and John Katsaras, 63–72. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies.

Blog post

Davis, Josh. 2016. “Ants Have Been Cultivating Plants In Fiji For Millions Of Years.” IFLScience, IFLScience, November 24.

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. 1979. Questions Designed To Aid Managers and Auditors in Assessing the ADP Planning Process. 092130. Washington, DC: 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

Gullion, Darin K. 2009. “The Study of Interstate and Intrastate Mobility Effects on Student Achievement.” Doctoral dissertation, Indiana 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

Romero, Simon. 2016. “Let the Games . . . End. Please.” New York Times, August 4, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Diamond 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Diamond 2004; Morris and Barthelemy 2013).

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

Two authors: (Morris and Barthelemy 2013)
Three authors: (Yuasa, Nagahama, and Suzuki 2002)
4 or more authors: (Eisenberg et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies
ISSN (print)	1470-1847
ISSN (online)	1469-9524
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