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

Roelfsema, P. R. (2002). Do neurons predict the future? Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5553), 227.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stein, S., & Okal, E. A. (2005). Seismology: speed and size of the Sumatra earthquake. Nature, 434(7033), 581–582.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, H., Zones, S. I., & Davis, M. E. (2003). A combustion-free methodology for synthesizing zeolites and zeolite-like materials. Nature, 425(6956), 385–388.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lu, H., Seo, Y.-T., Lee, J.-W., Moudrakovski, I., Ripmeester, J. A., Chapman, N. R., Coffin, R. B., Gardner, G., & Pohlman, J. (2007). Complex gas hydrate from the Cascadia margin. Nature, 445(7125), 303–306.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Adamowicz, Z., & Zbierski, P. (1997). Logic of Mathematics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Nihoyannopoulos, P., & Kisslo, J. (Eds.). (2009). Echocardiography. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Shams, F., & Tribastone, M. (2015). Power Trading Coordination in Smart Grids Using Dynamic Learning and Coalitional Game Theory. In J. Campos & B. R. Haverkort (Eds.), Quantitative Evaluation of Systems: 12th International Conference, QEST 2015, Madrid, Spain, September 1-3, 2015, Proceedings (pp. 54–69). Springer International Publishing.

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

Fang, J. (2014, August 23). Hydrogen-Generating Water Splitter Runs on AAA Battery. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/hydrogen-generating-water-splitter-runs-aaa-battery/

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. (1974). Examination of Grants Awarded to the Berkeley Unified School District and to Bilingual Children’s Television, Inc (B-164031(1)). 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

Ghafoori, H. D. (2010). Working with Muslim children and families: A training program for child welfare social workers [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Nir, S. M., & Surico, J. (2017, October 24). Three Shots and an Officer Down: Gripping Testimony in Queens. New York Times, A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Roelfsema, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Roelfsema, 2002; Stein & Okal, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Stein & Okal, 2005)
Three authors: (Lee et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Lu et al., 2007)

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