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

Brockhurst, M. (2010). Journal club. An evolutionary biologist marvels at how species evolve to help each other out. Nature, 464(7288), 469.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boller, T., & He, S. Y. (2009). Innate immunity in plants: an arms race between pattern recognition receptors in plants and effectors in microbial pathogens. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5928), 742–744.

A journal article with 3 authors

Debs, J. E., Robins, N. P., & Close, J. D. (2013). Physics. Measuring mass in seconds. Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6119), 532–533.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Dunn, M., Terrill, A., Reesink, G., Foley, R. A., & Levinson, S. C. (2005). Structural phylogenetics and the reconstruction of ancient language history. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5743), 2072–2075.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

American Institute of Timber Constr. (2012). Timber Construction Manual. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chabot, J. (2016). Mass Media and the Genocide of the Armenians: One Hundred Years of Uncertain Representation. (R. Godin, S. Kappler, & S. Kasparian, Eds.). London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Buck, M. (2014). Patient Treatment. In D. Beckers & M. Buck (Eds.), PNF in Practice: An Illustrated Guide (pp. 53–61). 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, D. (2017, March 10). Life On Earth Is Used To Gravity – So What Happens To Our Cells And Tissues In Space? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/life-on-earth-is-used-to-gravity-so-what-happens-to-our-cells-and-tissues-in-space/. 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. (2004). Telecommunications: Wire-Based Competition Benefited Consumers In Selected Markets (No. GAO-04-241). 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

Randall, R. (2009). Department of Children and Family Services workers’ knowledge of childhood obesity and services for obese children (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

Wagner, J. (2017, October 8). Nationals Stage a Late Comeback, Perhaps Exorcising Some Demons. New York Times, p. SP2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brockhurst 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Boller and He 2009; Brockhurst 2010).

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

Two authors: (Boller and He 2009)
Three or more authors: (Dunn et al. 2005)

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

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