How to format your references using the Journal of Adult Development citation style

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

Garner, E. C. (2008). GE Prize essay. Understanding a minimal DNA-segregating machine. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5907), 1486–1487.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rappuoli, R., & Aderem, A. (2011). A 2020 vision for vaccines against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria. Nature, 473(7348), 463–469.

A journal article with 3 authors

Berné, O., Marcelino, N., & Cernicharo, J. (2010). Waves on the surface of the Orion molecular cloud. Nature, 466(7309), 947–949.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Xiong, G., Clark, J. N., Nicklin, C., Rawle, J., & Robinson, I. K. (2014). Atomic diffusion within individual gold nanocrystal. Scientific reports, 4, 6765.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zaragoza Dörwald, F. (2004). Side Reactions in Organic Synthesis. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Rehm, G., & Uszkoreit, H. (Eds.). (2012). The Greek Language in the Digital Age. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Johnson, R. A., Yang, Y., Aguiar, E., Rider, A., & Chawla, N. V. (2013). ALIVE: A Multi-relational Link Prediction Environment for the Healthcare Domain. In T. Washio & J. Luo (Eds.), Emerging Trends in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: PAKDD 2012 International Workshops: DMHM, GeoDoc, 3Clust, and DSDM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 29 – June 1, 2012, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 36–46). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Adult Development.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, June 24). Super-Earths Have Continents Too. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/super-earths-have-continents-too/. Accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office. (2014). Polar Weather Satellites: NOAA Needs To Prepare for Near-term Data Gaps [Reissued on January 16, 2015] (No. GAO-15-47). Washington, DC: 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

Bottorff, A. K. (2010). Evaluating summer school programs and the effect on student achievement: The correlation between Stanford-10 standardized test scores and two different summer programs (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Shattuck, K. (2017, June 2). A Break From ‘House of Cards’ Intrigue. New York Times, p. MB2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Garner 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Garner 2008; Rappuoli and Aderem 2011).

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

Two authors: (Rappuoli and Aderem 2011)
Three or more authors: (Xiong et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Adult Development
Abbreviation	J. Adult Dev.
ISSN (print)	1068-0667
ISSN (online)	1573-3440
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Life-span and Life-course Studies