How to format your references using the Children and Youth Services Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Children and Youth Services 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	Download the output style file
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

Lazer, D. (2015). Social sciences. The rise of the social algorithm. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6239), 1090–1091.

A journal article with 2 authors

Leuenberger, M. N., & Loss, D. (2001). Quantum computing in molecular magnets. Nature, 410(6830), 789–793.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brandes, M., Willimann, K., & Moser, B. (2005). Professional antigen-presentation function by human gammadelta T Cells. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5732), 264–268.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Montes-Hugo, M., Doney, S. C., Ducklow, H. W., Fraser, W., Martinson, D., Stammerjohn, S. E., & Schofield, O. (2009). Recent changes in phytoplankton communities associated with rapid regional climate change along the western Antarctic Peninsula. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5920), 1470–1473.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Khanlari, R., & Fard, M. S. (2015). FIDIC Plant and Design-Build Form of Contract Illustrated. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Pérez Cañado, M. L. (Ed.). (2013). Competency-based Language Teaching in Higher Education (Vol. 14). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Andersson, B., Bergholtz, M., & Johannesson, P. (2012). Resource, Process, and Use – Views on Service Modeling. In S. Castano, P. Vassiliadis, L. V. Lakshmanan, & M. L. Lee (Eds.), Advances in Conceptual Modeling: ER 2012 Workshops CMS, ECDM-NoCoDA, MoDIC, MORE-BI, RIGiM, SeCoGIS, WISM, Florence, Italy, October 15-18, 2012. Proceedings (pp. 23–33). 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 Children and Youth Services Review.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2013, November 13). Newly-Discovered Fossils Suggest That Big Cats Originated in Asia. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/newly-discovered-fossils-suggest-big-cats-originated-asia/

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. (1987). Preparing, Documenting, and Referencing Lotus Spreadsheets (134610). 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

Garza-Meza, L. E. (2013). Photography as a spiritual technique [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine University.

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

Burghardt, L. F. (2007, January 7). Neighbors Protest Flea Market’s Move to Belmont Park. New York Times, 14CN5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lazer, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Lazer, 2015; Leuenberger & Loss, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Leuenberger & Loss, 2001)
Three authors: (Brandes et al., 2005)
6 or more authors: (Montes-Hugo et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Children and Youth Services Review
Abbreviation	Child. Youth Serv. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0190-7409
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Education Sociology and Political Science