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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Bode, M. (2004). Physics. The environment matters--even on the atomic scale. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5695), 423–425.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hermisson, J., & McGregor, A. P. (2008). Pleiotropic scaling and QTL data. Nature, 456(7222), E3; discussion E4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aylward, R. B., Sutter, R. W., & Heymann, D. L. (2005). Policy. OPV cessation--the final step to a “polio-free” world. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5748), 625–626.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kryukov, G. V., Castellano, S., Novoselov, S. V., Lobanov, A. V., Zehtab, O., Guigó, R., & Gladyshev, V. N. (2003). Characterization of mammalian selenoproteomes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5624), 1439–1443.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brodsky, B. S., & Stanley, B. (2013). The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Primer. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Sommers, L. S., & Launer, J. (Eds.). (2013). Clinical Uncertainty in Primary Care: The Challenge of Collaborative Engagement. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang, A., Zhou, L., & Wang, L. (2016). Summary. In L. Zhou & L. Wang (Eds.), Security-Aware Device-to-Device Communications Underlaying Cellular Networks (pp. 71–73). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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. (2016, October 31). Why Do We Get Dizzy? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-do-we-get-dizzy/. 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. (1974). Space Transportation System (No. 093967). 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

Greenfield, D. (2017). Beyond Super Heroes and Talking Animals: Social Justice in Graphic Novels in Education (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Acosta, D., & Robles, F. (2017, October 20). Month After a Storm, Puerto Rico Awaits Power. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bode 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Bode 2004; Hermisson and McGregor 2008).

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

Two authors: (Hermisson and McGregor 2008)
Three or more authors: (Kryukov et al. 2003)

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