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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Latin American Cultural 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

Dolgin, Elie. 2015. “Mental Health: Monsters in the Mirror.” Nature 526 (7572): S14-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhou, Huaiyang, and Henry J. B. Dick. 2013. “Thin Crust as Evidence for Depleted Mantle Supporting the Marion Rise.” Nature 494 (7436): 195–200.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ingle, Nicholas J. C., Malcolm R. Beasley, and Theodore H. Geballe. 2002. “Superconductivity in a Spin-Ladder Cuprate.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 295 (5562): 1967.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Endres, Nicholas F., Craig Yoshioka, Ronald A. Milligan, and Ronald D. Vale. 2006. “A Lever-Arm Rotation Drives Motility of the Minus-End-Directed Kinesin Ncd.” Nature 439 (7078): 875–878.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Onstott, Scott. 2017. AutoCAD® and AutoCAD LT® Essentials. Indianapolis, Indiana: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Block, David L., Kenneth C. Freeman, and Ivânio Puerari, eds. 2010. Galaxies and Their Masks: A Conference in Honour of K.C. Freeman, FRS. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Friedman, Yaakov, and Tzvi Scarr. 2005. “The Classical Bounded Symmetric Domains.” In Physical Applications of Homogeneous Balls, edited by Tzvi Scarr, 153–193. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser.

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 Latin American Cultural Studies.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. 2016. “Deep Ancient Water Is Stopping The Antarctic Ocean From Warming.” IFLScience, IFLScience, June 2.

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. 2013. District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program: Actions Needed to Address Weaknesses in Administration and Oversight. GAO-13-805. 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

Lu, Wei-Yu. 2012. “The Performance Practice of Buddhist Baiqi in Contemporary Taiwan.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Walsh, Mary Williams. 2016. “Puerto Rico Asks for Help, With Creditors in Pursuit.” New York Times, January 9, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dolgin 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Dolgin 2015; Zhou and Dick 2013).

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

Two authors: (Zhou and Dick 2013)
Three authors: (Ingle, Beasley, and Geballe 2002)
4 or more authors: (Endres et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies
Abbreviation	J. Lat. Am. Cult. Stud.
ISSN (print)	1356-9325
ISSN (online)	1469-9575
Scope	History Cultural Studies