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

Stocker, T. F. (2015). The silent services of the world ocean. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6262), 764–765.

A journal article with 2 authors

McMurray, M. A., & Gottschling, D. E. (2003). An age-induced switch to a hyper-recombinational state. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5641), 1908–1911.

A journal article with 3 authors

Boyvat, M., Hafner, C., & Leuthold, J. (2014). Wireless control and selection of forces and torques--towards wireless engines. Scientific Reports, 4, 5681.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Thompson, D. W. J., Kennedy, J. J., Wallace, J. M., & Jones, P. D. (2008). A large discontinuity in the mid-twentieth century in observed global-mean surface temperature. Nature, 453(7195), 646–649.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Exposito, E., & Diop, C. (2014). Smart SOA Platforms in Cloud Computing Architectures. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lichtfouse, E. (Ed.). (2010). Genetic Engineering, Biofertilisation, Soil Quality and Organic Farming (Vol. 4). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Pollet, B. G., Staffell, I., & Adamson, K.-A. (2016). Structure of the Energy Sector in South Africa. In I. Staffell & K.-A. Adamson (Eds.), The Energy Landscape in the Republic of South Africa (pp. 21–29). 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

Andrews, R. (2016, June 7). How Will British Science Be Affected If The UK Votes To Leave The EU? IFLScience; IFLScience.

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). IRS Website: Long-Term Strategy Needed to Improve Interactive Services (GAO-13-435). 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

Legaspi, J. (2010). Accelerated supported employment program: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Murphy, M. J. O. (2015, January 16). Friday File. New York Times, C36.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stocker, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (McMurray & Gottschling, 2003; Stocker, 2015).

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

Two authors: (McMurray & Gottschling, 2003)
Three authors: (Boyvat et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Thompson et al., 2008)

About the journal

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

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