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

Horvat, M. (2011). Science in Europe. The new framework for EU research and innovation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6059), 1066–1068.

A journal article with 2 authors

Luzzatto, L., & Notaro, R. (2001). Malaria. Protecting against bad air. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5529), 442–443.

A journal article with 3 authors

Beerling, D. J., Osborne, C. P., & Chaloner, W. G. (2001). Evolution of leaf-form in land plants linked to atmospheric CO2 decline in the Late Palaeozoic era. Nature, 410(6826), 352–354.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Smith, L. C., MacDonald, G. M., Velichko, A. A., Beilman, D. W., Borisova, O. K., Frey, K. E., Kremenetski, K. V., & Sheng, Y. (2004). Siberian peatlands a net carbon sink and global methane source since the early Holocene. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5656), 353–356.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heywood, J. (2005). Engineering Education. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rocha, L., & Cavalheiro, E. A. (Eds.). (2013). Pharmacoresistance in Epilepsy: From Genes and Molecules to Promising Therapies. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ater, J. L., Weinberg, J. S., Maor, M. H., & Petropoulos, D. (2005). Brain Tumors: Chemotherapy and Investigational Therapy. In K. W. Chan & R. B. Raney (Eds.), Pediatric Oncology (pp. 50–69). Springer US.

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, D. (2016, September 2). How Does A Computer Know Where You’re Looking? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-does-a-computer-know-where-youre-looking-two/

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. (1988). Fund Accountability: Procedures Used for Selected Benefit/Mandatory Spending Programs Are Adequate (AFMD-88-30). 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

Dickinson, S. (2013). Best practices in integrating acquisitions [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

Crow, K. (2003, March 30). A Bus Stop May Disappear, And Some Old Bones Groan. New York Times, 145.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Horvat, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Horvat, 2011; Luzzatto & Notaro, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Luzzatto & Notaro, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Smith et al., 2004)

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