How to format your references using the Journal of Children and Media citation style

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

Ingham, P. W. (2001). Hedgehog signaling: a tale of two lipids. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5548), 1879–1881.

A journal article with 2 authors

Carr, J. S., & Najita, J. R. (2008). Organic molecules and water in the planet formation region of young circumstellar disks. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5869), 1504–1506.

A journal article with 3 authors

Burga, A., Casanueva, M. O., & Lehner, B. (2011). Predicting mutation outcome from early stochastic variation in genetic interaction partners. Nature, 480(7376), 250–253.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Smith, D. E., Zuber, M. T., Sun, X., Neumann, G. A., Cavanaugh, J. F., McGarry, J. F., & Zagwodzki, T. W. (2006). Two-way laser link over interplanetary distance. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5757), 53.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bunker, G., & Thomson, D. (2006). Delivering Utility Computing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Stjepandić, J., Wognum, N., & J.C. Verhagen, W. (Eds.). (2015). Concurrent Engineering in the 21st Century: Foundations, Developments and Challenges. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Brodusch, N., Trudeau, M. L., Michaud, P., Brochu, M., Rodrigue, L., Boselli, J., & Gauvin, R. (2016). Improvement in the Characterization of the 2099 Al-Li Alloy by FE-SEM. In H. Weiland, A. D. Rollett, & W. A. Cassada (Eds.), ICAA13 Pittsburgh: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Aluminum Alloys (pp. 23–28). 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 Children and Media.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2017, March 9). Congress Passes $19.5bn NASA Bill, Includes Humans To Mars And Europa Mission. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/congress-passes-195bn-nasa-bill-includes-humans-to-mars-and-europa-mission/

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. (2006). Enterprise Architecture: Leadership Remains Key to Establishing and Leveraging Architectures for Organizational Transformation (GAO-06-831). 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

Yahil, R. J. (2010). The role of interleukin-19 in interleukin-10 production by regulatory macrophages [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Wines, M., & Fernandez, M. (2016, May 2). Stricter Rules Over Voter IDs Reshape Races. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ingham, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Carr & Najita, 2008; Ingham, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Carr & Najita, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Smith et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Children and Media
Abbreviation	J. Child. Media
ISSN (print)	1748-2798
ISSN (online)	1748-2801
Scope