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

Joye, S. B. (2015). MARINE SCIENCE. Deepwater Horizon, 5 years on. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6248), 592–593.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lorenz, M. C., & Fink, G. R. (2001). The glyoxylate cycle is required for fungal virulence. Nature, 412(6842), 83–86.

A journal article with 3 authors

Goldberg, P., Berna, F., & Macphail, R. I. (2009). Comment on “DNA from pre-Clovis human coprolites in Oregon, North America.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5937), 148; author reply 148.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Simmons, N. B., Seymour, K. L., Habersetzer, J., & Gunnell, G. F. (2008). Primitive Early Eocene bat from Wyoming and the evolution of flight and echolocation. Nature, 451(7180), 818–821.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sanchez, A., & Carro, B. (2017). Digital Services in the 21st Century. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lara-Cinisomo, S., & Wisner, K. L. (Eds.). (2014). Perinatal Depression among Spanish-Speaking and Latin American Women: A Global Perspective on Detection and Treatment. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Maoilearca, L. C. Ó. (2016). Since Each of Us Was Several: Collaboration in the Context of the Differential Self. In N. Colin & S. Sachsenmaier (Eds.), Collaboration in Performance Practice: Premises, Workings and Failures (pp. 93–107). Palgrave Macmillan UK.

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, January 3). Possible Link Between Red Meat Consumption And Increased Cancer Risk Identified. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/possible-link-between-red-meat-consumption-and-increased-cancer-risk-identified/

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. (2007). Space Based Infrared System High Program and its Alternative (GAO-07-1088R). 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

Yi, M. (2015). Interrater reliability between novice and expert functional movement screen raters [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

Hubbard, B., & Schmitt, E. (2017, July 8). State Crumbling, ISIS Is Reclaiming Insurgent Roots. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Joye, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Joye, 2015; Lorenz & Fink, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Lorenz & Fink, 2001)
Three authors: (Goldberg et al., 2009)
6 or more authors: (Simmons et al., 2008)

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