How to format your references using the International Journal of Adolescence and Youth citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Adolescence and Youth. 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

Soper, A. K. (2015). Physical chemistry: Square ice in a graphene sandwich. Nature, 519(7544), 417–418.

A journal article with 2 authors

Atkins, J. F., & Gesteland, R. (2002). Biochemistry. The 22nd amino acid. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5572), 1409–1410.

A journal article with 3 authors

Redford, K. H., Jensen, D. B., & Breheny, J. J. (2012). Ecology. Integrating the captive and the wild. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6111), 1157–1158.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Delsuc, F., Brinkmann, H., Chourrout, D., & Philippe, H. (2006). Tunicates and not cephalochordates are the closest living relatives of vertebrates. Nature, 439(7079), 965–968.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ronen, T. (2011). The Positive Power of Imagery. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Yousif, M., & Schubert, L. (Eds.). (2013). Cloud Computing: Third International Conference, CloudComp 2012, Vienna, Austria, September 24-26, 2012, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 112). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Yang, J., Dolinger, M., Ritaccio, G., Conti, D., Zhu, X., & Huang, Y. (2015). Leucine as a Stimulant of Insulin. In R. Rajendram, V. R. Preedy, & V. B. Patel (Eds.), Branched Chain Amino Acids in Clinical Nutrition: Volume 1 (pp. 49–62). 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 International Journal of Adolescence and Youth.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, April 8). Novel Therapy Allows Paraplegic Patients To Regain Voluntary Movement. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/novel-therapy-allows-paraplegic-patients-regain-voluntary-movement/

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. (2002). Surface and Maritime Transportation: Developing Strategies for Enhancing Mobility: A National Challenge (GAO-02-775). 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

Kay, V. L. (2009). A single mother and child welfare: A personal narrative [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

St. John Kelly, E. (1993, December 19). PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times, 1315.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Soper, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Atkins & Gesteland, 2002; Soper, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Atkins & Gesteland, 2002)
Three authors: (Redford et al., 2012)
6 or more authors: (Delsuc et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Adolescence and Youth
Abbreviation	Int. J. Adolesc. Youth
ISSN (print)	0267-3843
ISSN (online)	2164-4527
Scope	Health(social science)