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

Gould, P. L. (2008). Physics. Cold molecules beat the shakes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5899), 203–204.

A journal article with 2 authors

Klyachko, V. A., & Jackson, M. B. (2002). Capacitance steps and fusion pores of small and large-dense-core vesicles in nerve terminals. Nature, 418(6893), 89–92.

A journal article with 3 authors

Skipper, M., Dhand, R., & Campbell, P. (2012). Presenting ENCODE. Nature, 489(7414), 45.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wang, H.-R., Zhang, Y., Ozdamar, B., Ogunjimi, A. A., Alexandrova, E., Thomsen, G. H., & Wrana, J. L. (2003). Regulation of cell polarity and protrusion formation by targeting RhoA for degradation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5651), 1775–1779.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Knuth, E. (2011). Trading Between the Lines. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hoffmann Davis, J. (Ed.). (2016). Discourse and Disjuncture between the Arts and Higher Education. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US.

A chapter in an edited book

Harel, D., & Feldman, Y. (2008). La correttezza degli algoritmi. In Y. Feldman (Ed.), Algoritmi: Lo spirito dell’informatica (pp. 121–155). Milano: 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

Fang, J. (2015, May 6). Temperature Swings Thousands of Degrees on Hellish Super Earth. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/temperature-swings-thousands-degrees-hellish-super-earth/. 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. (1989). P.L. 480 Title I Transportation Issues (No. T-NSIAD-90-8). 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

Bilbrey, J. (2017). The Positive Effects Extrinsic Motivation Can Have on Intrinsic Motivation in a Math Classroom (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Sisario, B., & Ember, S. (2016, October 17). Facing the Music. New York Times, p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gould 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Gould 2008; Klyachko and Jackson 2002).

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

Two authors: (Klyachko and Jackson 2002)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2003)

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