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

Check, E. (2003). National Academies launch grants for interdisciplinary work. Nature, 422(6934), 791.

A journal article with 2 authors

Soutoglou, E., & Talianidis, I. (2002). Coordination of PIC assembly and chromatin remodeling during differentiation-induced gene activation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5561), 1901–1904.

A journal article with 3 authors

Patkowski, K., Spirko, V., & Szalewicz, K. (2009). On the elusive twelfth vibrational state of beryllium dimer. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5958), 1382–1384.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lindorff-Larsen, K., Best, R. B., Depristo, M. A., Dobson, C. M., & Vendruscolo, M. (2005). Simultaneous determination of protein structure and dynamics. Nature, 433(7022), 128–132.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perez, A. (2013). Voice Over LTE. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ourselin, S., Alexander, D. C., Westin, C.-F., & Cardoso, M. J. (Eds.). (2015). Information Processing in Medical Imaging: 24th International Conference, IPMI 2015, Sabhal Mor Ostaig, Isle of Skye, UK, June 28 - July 3, 2015, Proceedings (Vol. 9123). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Nguyen, V.-T., Vu, H., & Tran, T.-H. (2015). An Efficient Combination of RGB and Depth for Background Subtraction. In Q. A. Dang, X. H. Nguyen, H. B. Le, V. H. Nguyen, & V. N. Q. Bao (Eds.), Some Current Advanced Researches on Information and Computer Science in Vietnam: Post-proceedings of The First NAFOSTED Conference on Information and Computer Science (pp. 49–63). 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

Andrew, E. (2015, April 22). Dispersants Sprayed In Wake Of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill More Toxic Than Oil Alone. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/dispersants-sprayed-wake-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-more-toxic-oil-alone/

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. (2007). VA Student Financial Aid: Actions Needed to Reduce Overlap in Approval Activities (GAO-07-775T). 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

Packard, J. A. (2008). Analyzing the intersection of leadership practices, emotional intelligence, and coping responses in women -owned small businesses [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella University.

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017, June 8). Moscow Never Sleeps. New York Times, C9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Check, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Check, 2003; Soutoglou & Talianidis, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Soutoglou & Talianidis, 2002)
Three authors: (Patkowski et al., 2009)
6 or more authors: (Lindorff-Larsen et al., 2005)

About the journal

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