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

Smaglik, P. (2002). Another British invasion? Nature, 420(6916), 3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roškar, R., & Debattista, V. P. (2012). Astronomy. Galactic archaeology. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6105), 333–334.

A journal article with 3 authors

Merilä, J., Kruuk, L. E., & Sheldon, B. C. (2001). Cryptic evolution in a wild bird population. Nature, 412(6842), 76–79.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Aungst, J. L., Heyward, P. M., Puche, A. C., Karnup, S. V., Hayar, A., Szabo, G., & Shipley, M. T. (2003). Centre-surround inhibition among olfactory bulb glomeruli. Nature, 426(6967), 623–629.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fanchi, J. R. (2006). Math Refresher for Scientists and Engineers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Leal Filho, W., & Sümer, V. (Eds.). (2015). Sustainable Water Use and Management: Examples of New Approaches and Perspectives. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Ben-Chaim, D., Keret, Y., & Ilany, B.-S. (2012). A Mathematical Perspective of Ratio and Proportion. In D. Ben-Chaim, Y. Keret, & B.-S. Ilany (Eds.), Ratio and Proportion: Research and Teaching in Mathematics Teachers’ Education (Pre- and In-Service Mathematics Teachers of Elementary and Middle School Classes) (pp. 23–47). Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

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

Davis, J. (2015, August 15). Humanity Has Already Used An Entire Earth’s Worth Of Resources This Year. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/humanity-has-already-used-entire-earths-worth-resources/. 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. (2004). Data Mining: Federal Efforts Cover a Wide Range of Uses (No. GAO-04-548). 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

Spanier, A. J. (2008). The Relationship of Genes and Environment with Exhaled Nitric Oxide in Children with Asthma (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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

Paulson, M., & Deb, S. (2017, June 13). How Outrage Built Over a Shakespearean Depiction of Trump. New York Times, p. A24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Roškar and Debattista 2012; Smaglik 2002).

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

Two authors: (Roškar and Debattista 2012)
Three or more authors: (Aungst et al. 2003)

About the journal

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