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

Fabian, A. C. (2006). Astronomy. Variable high-energy gamma rays from the elliptical galaxy M87. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5804), 1398–1399.

A journal article with 2 authors

Feau, S., & Schoenberger, S. P. (2009). Immunology. Ex uno plura. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5913), 466–467.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhou, H., Guan, H., & Chi, B. (2007). Record of winter monsoon strength. Nature, 450(7168), E10-1; discussion E11.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Viola, L., Fortunato, E. M., Pravia, M. A., Knill, E., Laflamme, R., & Cory, D. G. (2001). Experimental realization of noiseless subsystems for quantum information processing. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5537), 2059–2063.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hyatt, T. K., & Hopkins, B. R. (2013). The Law of Tax-Exempt Healthcare Organizations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Fink, A., & Rothlauf, F. (Eds.). (2008). Advances in Computational Intelligence in Transport, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management (Vol. 144). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kümmerer, B. (2006). Quantum Markov Processes and Applications in Physics. In M. Schüermann & U. Franz (Eds.), Quantum Independent Increment Processes II: Structure of Quantum Levy Processes, Classical Probability, and Physics (pp. 259–330). 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 Children and Media.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, July 12). Blood Biomarkers Help Unravel The Mystery Of Gulf War Illness. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/blood-biomarkers-help-unravel-mystery-gulf-war-illness/

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. (2003). Contracting for Information Technology Services (GAO-03-384R). 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

Clyde, K. M. (2012). Instructors’ Perceptions of the National Association of Schools of Music Influence on the Development of Undergraduate Applied Percussion Curricula [Doctoral dissertation]. Northcentral 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

Brantley, B. (2016, September 29). Regrets? She Has a Big One. New York Times, C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fabian, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Fabian, 2006; Feau & Schoenberger, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Feau & Schoenberger, 2009)
Three authors: (Zhou et al., 2007)
6 or more authors: (Viola et al., 2001)

About the journal

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