How to format your references using the Latin American Economic Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Latin American Economic Review. 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

Sinclair DA (2003) Cell biology. An age of instability. Science 301:1859–1860

A journal article with 2 authors

Kramer EM, Donohue K (2006) Evolution. Traversing the adaptive landscape in snapdragons. Science 313:924–925

A journal article with 3 authors

Crespo-Hernández CE, Cohen B, Kohler B (2005) Base stacking controls excited-state dynamics in A.T DNA. Nature 436:1141–1144

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Boiko AD, Razorenova OV, van de Rijn M, et al (2010) Human melanoma-initiating cells express neural crest nerve growth factor receptor CD271. Nature 466:133–137

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sellars C (2011) Risk Assessment in People with Learning Disabilities. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Conrady R, Buck M (eds) (2012) Trends and Issues in Global Tourism 2012. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Niu B, Li X, Zhu X, et al (2015) Are You Really My Friend? Exactly Spatiotemporal Matching Scheme in Privacy-Aware Mobile Social Networks. In: Tian J, Jing J, Srivatsa M (eds) International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks: 10th International ICST Conference, SecureComm 2014, Beijing, China, September 24-26, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Part II. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 33–40

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 Economic Review.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2016) Wormholes Could Solve A Key Problem With Quantum Mechanics. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/wormholes-could-solve-a-key-problem-with-quantum-mechanics/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (2007) Transportation Accessibility: Lack of Data and Limited Enforcement Options Limit Federal Oversight. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Werbeck K-U (2012) From rubble to revolutions and raves: Literary interrogations of German media ecologies. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Corkery M, Protess B (2016) How the Twinkie Made the Superrich Even Richer. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sinclair 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Sinclair 2003; Kramer and Donohue 2006).

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

Two authors: (Kramer and Donohue 2006)
Three or more authors: (Boiko et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Latin American Economic Review
Abbreviation	Lat. Am. Econ. Rev.
ISSN (print)	2198-3526
ISSN (online)	2196-436X
Scope	General Economics, Econometrics and Finance