Professor Fabrice Lehoucq, Book Review Editor
Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
324 Curry Building, PO Box 26170
1109 Spring Garden St., Greensboro, NC 27412
[email protected] / https://lasa.international.pitt.edu/eng/larr/
Book Review Essay Style Guide
Send the completed book review essay as an attachment to the book review editor of Latin
American Research Review, Professor Fabrice Lehoucq, at [email protected].
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Provide a title describing the general topic of your essay and place your name and affiliation
below.
Offer complete bibliographic information for the books under review at the start of the
article, including the number of pages, price, and ISBN. The books should be arranged in
alphabetical order according to the last name of the first author or editor.
Examples:
Walking Ghosts: Murder and Guerrilla Politics in Colombia. By Steven S. Dudley. New
York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. xx + 257. $27.50 cloth. ISBN: 9780415933048.
Landscapes of Struggle: Politics, Society, and Community in El Salvador. Edited by Aldo
Lauria-Santiago and Leigh Binford. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004. Pp. ix
+ 336. $22.95 paper. ISBN: 9780822958384.
Beyond Black and Red: African-Native Relations in Colonial Latin America. Edited by
Matthew Restall. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. Pp. xv + 303.
$45.00 cloth. $22.95 paper. ISBN: 978826324029.
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Submit your article electronically in Microsoft Word (or compatible format).
Double-space all text and use a 12-point font, preferably Times Roman.
Left justify the text margins; do not use right justification.
Indent each new paragraph.
Use parenthetical references when citing the books listed at the start of the essay. For
example: Dudley examines this trend in detail (223); or This matter is well documented (see
Dudley, 223–246). When citing a piece in a collective volume, the parenthetical reference
should give the editor’s name and the page numbers. For example: Johnson calls this “an
unforgivable tragedy” (Restall, 43).
The titles of individual essays in a collective volume can be given, if necessary, in
parentheses directly after the first mention of the author’s name. For example: Ellen T. Baird
(“Sahagún and the Representation of History”) also examines this theme.
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Keep notes to a minimum. Use the automatic footnote function in Microsoft Word (not a
specialty citation program). Use footnotes (not parenthetical references) when referring to
works other than those under review. Book review essays do not include a reference list, so
place full bibliographic information in the first note citation, using the citation style given in
The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed. (Thereafter, use short references including author,
short title, and page reference if needed.)
Examples:
1. Steven S. Dudley, Walking Ghosts: Murder and Guerilla Politics in Colombia (New York:
Routledge, 2004), 10–11.
2. Dudley, Walking Ghosts, 13.
3. Douglas D. Heckathorn, “Collective Sanctions and Compliance Norms: A Formal Theory
of Group-Mediated Social Control,” American Sociological Review 55, no. 3 (1990): 370.
4. Heckathorn, “Collective Sanctions and Compliance Norms,” 371.
5. Jane Landers, “Africans and Native Americans on the Spanish Florida Frontier,” in Beyond
Black and Red: African-Native Relations in Colonial Latin America, ed. Matthew Restall
(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005), 54.
6. Elaine C. Licio, Lucio R. Rennó, and Henrique C. O. Castro, “Bolsa Família e voto na
eleição presidencial de 2006: Em busca do elo perdido,” Opinião Pública 15, no. 1 (2009):
31–54.
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Verify all quotations and references against the original sources, especially journal titles,
accents, diacritics, dates, and spellings in languages other than English.
Spell out the first instance of all acronyms: e.g., International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Write out numbers one through ninety-nine unless these refer to percentages (e.g., 15
percent). If your essay is heavily data-oriented, use numerals and we will assess the most
consistent way to treat them.
Use first and last names for the first mention of proper names (Augusto Pinochet; John F.
Kennedy) and surnames thereafter (Pinochet; Kennedy).
Italicize first instances of foreign terms not found in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate
Dictionary (11th ed., available online). Put phrases, sentences, and names of organizations in
roman type.
Refer to the 16th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style for all other matters pertaining to
style and format. If you have any questions about manuscript preparation, please do not
hesitate to contact the managing editor at [email protected].