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

Livio, M. (2015). Astronomy: Hubble’s legacy. Nature, 520(7547), 287–289.

A journal article with 2 authors

Balskus, E. P., & Jacobsen, E. N. (2007). Asymmetric catalysis of the transannular Diels-Alder reaction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5845), 1736–1740.

A journal article with 3 authors

Basch, M. L., Bronner-Fraser, M., & García-Castro, M. I. (2006). Specification of the neural crest occurs during gastrulation and requires Pax7. Nature, 441(7090), 218–222.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Niemela, J. J., Skrbek, L., Sreenivasan, K. R., & Donnelly, R. J. (2000). Turbulent convection at very high Rayleigh numbers. Nature, 404(6780), 837–840.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paul, S. (2010). Digital Video Distribution in Broadband, Television, Mobile and Converged Networks. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ingrassia, S., Rocci, R., & Vichi, M. (Eds.). (2011). New Perspectives in Statistical Modeling and Data Analysis: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Classification and Data Analysis Group of the Italian Statistical Society, Catania, September 9 - 11, 2009. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Engwerda, C., Belnoue, E., Grüner, A. C., & Rénia, L. (2005). ExperimentalModels of Cerebral Malaria. In J. Langhorne (Ed.), Immunology and Immunopathogenesis of Malaria (pp. 103–143). 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

Andrew, E. (2014, November 19). Brain Pathway Rediscovered After 100 Years. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (1967). Automatic Data Processing (No. 088319). 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

Reyes, J. (2009). Connections: A grant proposal for mothers struggling with substance abuse in the child welfare system (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

(nyt), S. K. (2002, January 23). World Briefing | Europe: Estonia: New Prime Minister. New York Times, p. A7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Livio 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Balskus and Jacobsen 2007; Livio 2015).

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

Two authors: (Balskus and Jacobsen 2007)
Three or more authors: (Niemela et al. 2000)

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