How to format your references using the Journal of Adolescent Health citation style

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

[1]

Kappeler PM. Evolution. Why male mammals are monogamous. Science 2013;341:469–70.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gratzer W, Nathan DG. Obituary: Fred S. Rosen (1930-2005). Nature 2005;435:1044.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Rich PD, Liaw H-P, Lee AK. Place cells. Large environments reveal the statistical structure governing hippocampal representations. Science 2014;345:814–7.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Pälike H, Norris RD, Herrle JO, et al. The heartbeat of the Oligocene climate system. Science 2006;314:1894–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Flood BG. Wealth Exposed. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Bramer M, editor. Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice II: IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, TC 12: IFIP AI 2008 Stream, September 7-10, 2008, Milano, Italy. vol. 276. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Aadland K. The Performative Relation Between Storyteller, Story, and Children. In: Erstad O, Kumpulainen K, Mäkitalo Å, et al., editors. Learning across Contexts in the Knowledge Society, Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2016, p. 61–84.

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 Adolescent Health.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Why This Researcher Hunted For Scientists With Chests Narrower Than 18 Centimeters. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/amazing-story-finding-homo-naledi/. AccessedOctober 30, 2018.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. International Space Station: Challenges to Increased Utilization May Affect Return on Investment. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Perry EM. Live and let live: Negotiating difference in a diverse urban neighborhood. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University, 2010.

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

[1]

Kelly C. For the Stressed Business Owner, a Range of Pursuits to Revive the Spirit. New York Times 2009:B7.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Adolescent Health
Abbreviation	J. Adolesc. Health
ISSN (print)	1054-139X
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Psychiatry and Mental health Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health