How to format your references using the Journal of Youth and Adolescence citation style

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

Wurthner, F. (2006). Chemistry. Generating a photocurrent on the nanometer scale. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5806), 1693–1694.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lewcock, J. W., & Reed, R. R. (2003). Neuroscience. ORs rule the roost in the olfactory system. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5653), 2078–2079.

A journal article with 3 authors

McPhaden, M. J., Zebiak, S. E., & Glantz, M. H. (2006). ENSO as an integrating concept in earth science. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5806), 1740–1745.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Minamino, T., Morimoto, Y. V., Kinoshita, M., Aldridge, P. D., & Namba, K. (2014). The bacterial flagellar protein export apparatus processively transports flagellar proteins even with extremely infrequent ATP hydrolysis. Scientific reports, 4, 7579.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pan, G. W. (2003). Wavelets in Electromagnetics and Device Modeling. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Omatu, S., De Paz Santana, J. F., González, S. R., Molina, J. M., Bernardos, A. M., & Rodríguez, J. M. C. (Eds.). (2012). Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence: 9th International Conference (Vol. 151). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Čomić, L., De Floriani, L., Magillo, P., & Iuricich, F. (2014). A Combinatorial Approach Based on Forman Theory. In L. De Floriani, P. Magillo, & F. Iuricich (Eds.), Morphological Modeling of Terrains and Volume Data (pp. 69–88). New York, NY: 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 Youth and Adolescence.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, September 12). How To Tell If Someone Is A Psychopath. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/can-you-really-tell-if-someone-psychopath/. 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. (1996). Export Controls: Sale of Telecommunications Equipment to China (No. NSIAD-97-5). 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

Yang, S. J. (2014). Adapting Korean Cinderella Folklore as Fairy Tales for Children (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

MacFARQUHAR, N. (2015, January 13). Conspiracy Theories Mix With Somber Condolences. New York Times, p. A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wurthner 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Lewcock and Reed 2003; Wurthner 2006).

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

Two authors: (Lewcock and Reed 2003)
Three or more authors: (Minamino et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Youth and Adolescence
Abbreviation	J. Youth Adolesc.
ISSN (print)	0047-2891
ISSN (online)	1573-6601
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Social Psychology Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Education