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

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

Fine, C. (2014). Neuroscience. His brain, her brain? Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6212), 915–916.

A journal article with 2 authors

Henney, A., & Superti-Furga, G. (2008). A network solution. Nature, 455(7214), 730–731.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xiao, S., Li, R., & Chen, M. (2013). Detecting sedimentary cycles using autocorrelation of grain size. Scientific Reports, 3, 1653.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Dyachok, O., Isakov, Y., Sågetorp, J., & Tengholm, A. (2006). Oscillations of cyclic AMP in hormone-stimulated insulin-secreting beta-cells. Nature, 439(7074), 349–352.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li, R. C.-H. (2008). RF Circuit Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Degano, P., Guttman, J., & Martinelli, F. (Eds.). (2009). Formal Aspects in Security and Trust: 5th International Workshop, FAST 2008 Malaga, Spain, October 9-10, 2008 Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 5491). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Brown, E. (2010). The Life and Tools of a Games Designer. In R. Bernhaupt (Ed.), Evaluating User Experience in Games: Concepts and Methods (pp. 73–87). 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 Journal of Adolescence.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 14). Researchers Produce Opioid Pain Killer From Genetically Modified Yeast With Opium Poppy Genes. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/researchers-produce-opioid-pain-killer-genetically-modified-yeast-opium-poppy/

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. (1999). Federal Education Funding: Allocation to State and Local Agencies for 10 Programs (HEHS-99-180). 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

Dusso, A. P. (2010). The psychology of institutional development: How parties’ willingness to accept risk affects the districts they draw and the seats they win [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

La GORCE, T. (2017, May 19). He Arrived as Reba McEntire. That Seemed to Work. New York Times, ST13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fine, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Fine, 2014; Henney & Superti-Furga, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Henney & Superti-Furga, 2008)
Three authors: (Xiao et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Dyachok et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Adolescence
Abbreviation	J. Adolesc.
ISSN (print)	0140-1971
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Psychiatry and Mental health Developmental and Educational Psychology Social Psychology