How to format your references using the Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic 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	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

Triendl, R. 2001. “Limited Opportunity.” Nature 414 (6860): 8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Etienne-Manneville, Sandrine, and Alan Hall. 2003. “Cdc42 Regulates GSK-3beta and Adenomatous Polyposis Coli to Control Cell Polarity.” Nature 421 (6924): 753–756.

A journal article with 3 authors

Insel, Thomas R., Story C. Landis, and Francis S. Collins. 2013. “Research Priorities. The NIH BRAIN Initiative.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 340 (6133): 687–688.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Linnen, Catherine R., Evan P. Kingsley, Jeffrey D. Jensen, and Hopi E. Hoekstra. 2009. “On the Origin and Spread of an Adaptive Allele in Deer Mice.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 325 (5944): 1095–1098.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG. 2013. Funding Atlas 2012. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Papon, Pierre, Jacques Leblond, and Paul H. E. Meijer, eds. 2006. The Physics of Phase Transitions: Concepts and Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lam, Hak-Keung, and Frank Hung-Fat Leung. 2010. “Chapter 4 BMI Stability Conditions for FMB Control Systems.” In Stability Analysis of Fuzzy-Model-Based Control Systems: Linear-Matrix-Inequality Approach, edited by Frank Hung-Fat Leung, 59–84. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Janusz Kacprzyk. 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 Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies.

Blog post

Davis, Josh. 2015. “Scientists Unravel The Causes Of Schizophrenia.” IFLScience, IFLScience, May 5.

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. 2006. National Transportation Safety Board: Progress Made, Yet Management Practices, Investigation Priorities, and Training Center Use Should Be Improved. GAO-07-118. 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

Davidson, Jill Marie. 2010. “Transitional Age Youth—a Program Expansion to Enhance Existing Services in Sonoma County: A Grant-Writing Project.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Bilton, Nick. 2013. “All Is Fair in Love and Twitter.” New York Times, October 9, 2013.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Triendl 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Triendl 2001; Etienne-Manneville and Hall 2003).

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

Two authors: (Etienne-Manneville and Hall 2003)
Three authors: (Insel, Landis, and Collins 2013)
4 or more authors: (Linnen et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies
Abbreviation	Lat. Am. Caribb. Ethn. Stud.
ISSN (print)	1744-2222
ISSN (online)	1744-2230
Scope	Sociology and Political Science Anthropology Cultural Studies