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Guidelines for authors

Table 2. Cases and examples of quote references in the text.

Case How do you cite? Example
An author Last Name, publication year. Morales, 2012
Two authors Last name of the first author and the last name of the second author, Martínez & Cardoso, 2006
publication year.
Three, four or five The first time cited: last name of each author, publication year sub- Fernández Güell, Vera & Sanz,
authors sequent cites: first author, followed by the phrase “et al.” (without 2012
the italic words and with a point), year of publication. Fernández Güell et al., 2012
Six or more authors The last name of the first author, followed by the phrase “et al.”, Fernández Güell et al., 2012
Publication year.
Groups as authors The group’s name is written completely on the first quote, and year Economic Comission for Latin
of publication. America and Caribbean
If its initials are well known, it can be abbreviate from the next letter. ECLAC, 2010
No author When a document does not have an author, the first words of the Brief History of the cities of the
cited reference (usually, the title) and the year of publication. Old World, 2009
Anonymous author Cite the word “anonymous” and the year of publication. Anonymous, 2009
Author with several When an author has several works published in the same year, it is Sainz, 2009ª
papers in the same necessary to distinguish one work from another, adding a lowercase Sainz, 2009 b
year letter (a, b, c, d) after the year of publication.
Authors with the same When two different authors who share the same last name are cited, Torres, M., 2006
last name is add the initials of the name to differentiate them. Torres, P., 2008
Date unknown When a document cited undated availabl, at the place where is pu- Aguirre, s.f.
blication year, you should write the abbreviation S.F.
Emphasis on the When the original source is a part of the phrase, the author should Ramírez y Díaz (2005) identified
author be outside the parentheses. the factors…
In the Study published by Hernán-
dez et al. (2008) found that…
Emphasis on the When the original source is not a part of the phrase, it should be The main factors that affect on ...
content inside the parentheses (Ramirez and Diaz, 2005)

Lists of references • If the list of references appears more than one
paper by the same author, you should organize
The argumentative coherence of the article is focu- the references by chronological order, starting
sed on the need to include, at the end, in the list of with the oldest.
references, all sources have been cited throughout • When in the references, the first and second
the article. To fill out this requirement, it is vital to author are repeated, but the third is different,
verify that the sources of the quotes and the refe- these are organized in alphabetical order accor-
rences are consistent: ding to the name of the third author.
• References by the same author and date of
• The reference list is organized by alphabetical publication are organized in alphabetical order
order according to the last names of the authors. according to the title of the paper.
• Using hanging indent allows the reader to diffe- • The references of the authors with the same last
rentiate each beginning. name are organized alphabetically, based on
• After the last name and initials of the author, the first initial.
you should include the year of publication of • When the references do not have author or when
the paper. the authors are corporations, these are located

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