How to format your references using the Journal of Child and Family Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Child and Family Studies. 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

Inglis, T. (2014). Developed nations must not fear sending Ebola help. Nature, 514(7524), 537.

A journal article with 2 authors

Coura, J. R., & Viñas, P. A. (2010). Chagas disease: a new worldwide challenge. Nature, 465(7301), S6-7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Heeney, J. L., Dalgleish, A. G., & Weiss, R. A. (2006). Origins of HIV and the evolution of resistance to AIDS. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5786), 462–466.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Liang, X., Zhao, J., Dong, L., & Xu, K. (2013). Unraveling the origin of exponential law in intra-urban human mobility. Scientific reports, 3, 2983.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barone, S., & Franco, E. L. (2012). Statistical and Managerial Techniques for Six Sigma Methodology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Koziel, S. (2014). Antenna Design by Simulation-Driven Optimization. (S. Ogurtsov, Ed.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Barbosa, R. P., & Belo, O. (2010). Multi-Agent Forex Trading System. In A. Hãkansson, R. Hartung, & N. T. Nguyen (Eds.), Agent and Multi-agent Technology for Internet and Enterprise Systems (pp. 91–118). 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 Child and Family Studies.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, September 30). First Bee May Get US Federal Protection As All Species Continue To Decline. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/first-bee-may-get-us-federal-protection-as-all-species-continue-to-decline/. 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. (2013). Emergency Alerting: Capabilities Have Improved, but Additional Guidance and Testing Are Needed (No. GAO-13-375). 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

Honnold, J. L. (2012). Toward a Working Theory of Neurorhetorics (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Leland, J. (2017, March 17). Picking Fights, Dropping Names. New York Times, p. MB1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Inglis 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Coura and Viñas 2010; Inglis 2014).

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

Two authors: (Coura and Viñas 2010)
Three or more authors: (Liang et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Child and Family Studies
Abbreviation	J. Child Fam. Stud.
ISSN (print)	1062-1024
ISSN (online)	1573-2843
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Life-span and Life-course Studies