How to format your references using the Adolescent Research Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Adolescent Research 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Chu, S. (2002). Cold atoms and quantum control. Nature, 416(6877), 206–210.

A journal article with 2 authors

Queller, D. C., & Strassmann, J. E. (2002). The many selves of social insects. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5566), 311–313.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thakur, G., Prashanthi, K., & Thundat, T. (2013). Directed self-assembly of proteins into discrete radial patterns. Scientific reports, 3, 1923.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Tang, J., Tao, Z., Ding, Z., Zhang, Y., Zhang, J., Tian, B., et al. (2014). Complete genome characterization of a novel enterovirus type EV-B106 isolated in China, 2012. Scientific reports, 4, 4255.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Daïan, J.-F. (2014). Equilibrium and Transfer in Porous Media 2. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Tatnall, A., Blyth, T., & Johnson, R. (Eds.). (2013). Making the History of Computing Relevant: IFIP WG 9.7 International Conference, HC 2013, London, UK, June 17-18, 2013, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 416). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Carter, J., & Chermak, S. (2012). Evidence-Based Intelligence Practices: Examining the Role of Fusion Centers as a Critical Source of Information. In C. Lum & L. W. Kennedy (Eds.), Evidence-Based Counterterrorism Policy (pp. 65–88). New York, NY: 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 Adolescent Research Review.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2017, June 8). Naracoorte, Where Half A Million Years Of Biodiversity And Climate History Are Trapped In Caves. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/naracoorte-where-half-a-million-years-of-biodiversity-and-climate-history-are-trapped-in-caves/. Accessed 30 October 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. (2017). Corps of Engineers: Extent and Status of Expedited Permit Processing for Public-Utility Companies, Natural Gas Companies, and Railroad Carriers (No. GAO-17-678R). 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

Dair, C. (2015). Development of a nutrition-related curriculum for sustainable food waste management for foodservice operations (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Brantley, B. (2016, December 14). The Devil Went Down to Chelsea. New York Times, p. C5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chu 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Chu 2002; Queller and Strassmann 2002).

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

Two authors: (Queller and Strassmann 2002)
Three or more authors: (Tang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Adolescent Research Review
Abbreviation	Adolesc. Res. Rev.
ISSN (print)	2363-8346
ISSN (online)	2363-8354
Scope