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

Prasher, R. (2010). Materials science. Graphene spreads the heat. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5975), 185–186.

A journal article with 2 authors

Krüger, F., & Ohrnberger, M. (2005). Tracking the rupture of the Mw = 9.3 Sumatra earthquake over 1,150 km at teleseismic distance. Nature, 435(7044), 937–939.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gergely, G., Bekkering, H., & Király, I. (2002). Rational imitation in preverbal infants. Nature, 415(6873), 755.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Gröbner, G., Burnett, I. J., Glaubitz, C., Choi, G., Mason, A. J., & Watts, A. (2000). Observations of light-induced structural changes of retinal within rhodopsin. Nature, 405(6788), 810–813.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hinkelmann, K., & Kempthorne, O. (2005). Design and Analysis of Experiments: Advanced Experimental Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Akasaka, T., Osuka, A., Fukuzumi, S., Kandori, H., & Aso, Y. (Eds.). (2015). Chemical Science of π-Electron Systems (1st ed. 2015.). Tokyo: Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Soria, F., Kazama, S., & Sawamoto, M. (2009). Sensitivity Analysis of Distributed Rainfall-Runoff Models. In H. Tang (Ed.), Advances in Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering: Proceedings of 16th IAHR-APD Congress and 3rd Symposium of IAHR-ISHS (pp. 24–28). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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

Luntz, S. (2016, December 1). High School Students Make Martin Shkreli’s 5,000% Price-Hike Drug For Just $2. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/high-school-students-make-martin-shkrelis-5000-pricehike-drug-for-just-2/. 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. (2012). Batteries and Energy Storage: Federal Initiatives Supported Similar Technologies and Goals but Had Key Differences (No. GAO-12-842). 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

Konggidinata, M. I. (2017). Application and Modifications of Ordered Mesoporous Carbon (OMC) for BTEX Removal: Characterization, Adsorption Mechanisms, and Kinetic Studies (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Grynbaum, M. M. (2017, June 30). The Battle of ‘Morning Joe’: A Presidential Feud. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Prasher 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Krüger and Ohrnberger 2005; Prasher 2010).

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

Two authors: (Krüger and Ohrnberger 2005)
Three or more authors: (Gröbner et al. 2000)

About the journal

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