🇪🇸Spanish Legal Citation Generator

Spanish Legal citation examples

The same three sources formatted in Spanish Legal — a note-based style: citations appear in footnotes or endnotes rather than parentheses in the text:

Journal article

Rivera, M.; Chen, D., “The mapping of meaning: A study of citation practice,” Journal of Scholarly Communication, vol. 12, no. 3, 2021, pp. 145–162.

Book

Okafor, A., The craft of research writing, 2, University Press, Cambridge, 2019.

Website

Larsen, S., “How peer review works,” Open Science Digest, 2023, fecha de consulta 10 enero 2024, en https://www.example.org/peer-review.

In-text citation (for the journal article)

M. Rivera; D. Chen, “The mapping of meaning: A study of citation practice,” Journal of Scholarly Communication, vol. 12, 3, 2021.

About Spanish Legal

Citation style for Spanish Legal. From the Citation Style Language repository.

When to use Spanish Legal: When submitting to or citing in publications that use the Spanish Legal style. Common in: Spain.

Subject areas: law.

How to use this Spanish Legal generator

Paste a DOI, a URL to a news article or webpage, or raw BibTeX into the box above. You can also search for a book by title or author and cite it by ISBN. Choose "Spanish Legal" in the style dropdown (it's pre-selected on this page), then click "Generate citation." Copy the result into your reference list or bibliography. You can edit the generated entry (e.g. fix a title or add a date) before copying.

Frequently asked questions about Spanish Legal

What is Spanish Legal?

Citation style for Spanish Legal. From the Citation Style Language repository.

When should I use Spanish Legal?

When submitting to or citing in publications that use the Spanish Legal style.

What does an in-text citation look like in Spanish Legal?

Spanish Legal is a note-based style: citations appear in footnotes or endnotes rather than parentheses in the text. Citing our sample journal article in the text looks like: M. Rivera; D. Chen, “The mapping of meaning: A study of citation practice,” Journal of Scholarly Communication, vol. 12, 3, 2021.

What does a Spanish Legal reference list entry look like?

A journal article formatted in Spanish Legal looks like this: Rivera, M.; Chen, D., “The mapping of meaning: A study of citation practice,” Journal of Scholarly Communication, vol. 12, no. 3, 2021, pp. 145–162.

How can I generate a Spanish Legal citation?

Use the free generator on this page: paste a DOI, URL (e.g. a news article), or BibTeX, or search for a book by title or author. Select Spanish Legal as the citation style and click Generate to get a formatted reference you can copy into your paper or bibliography.