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

Greer, A. L. (2000). Too hot to melt. Nature, 404(6774), 134–135.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kennedy, B. M., & van Soest, M. C. (2007). Flow of mantle fluids through the ductile lower crust: helium isotope trends. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5855), 1433–1436.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ford, E. B., Lystad, V., & Rasio, F. A. (2005). Planet-planet scattering in the upsilon Andromedae system. Nature, 434(7035), 873–876.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Tatsuo, H., Ono, N., Tanaka, K., & Yanagi, Y. (2000). SLAM (CDw150) is a cellular receptor for measles virus. Nature, 406(6798), 893–897.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barkham, R. (2012). Real Estate and Globalisation. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Borwein, J. M. (2012). An Introduction to Modern Mathematical Computing: With Mathematica®. (M. P. Skerritt, Ed.). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bitner-Gregersen, E. M., Eide, L. I., Hørte, T., & Skjong, R. (2013). Summary of Past and Future Climate Change. In L. I. Eide, T. Hørte, & R. Skjong (Eds.), Ship and Offshore Structure Design in Climate Change Perspective (pp. 39–41). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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. (2016, December 12). Monkeys Should Be Able To Talk, If Only They Had The Brains To Do So. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/monkeys-should-be-able-to-talk-if-only-they-had-the-brains-to-do-so/. 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. (1986). ADP Acquisitions: Patent Automation Encountering Major Planning and Procurement Problems (No. IMTEC-86-19). 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

Saldivar, N. (2014). Understanding the impact of AB-12 on the child welfare workforce (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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. (2017, April 17). Lost and Found in a Magic Tale of Nomads. New York Times, p. C5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Greer 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Greer 2000; Kennedy and van Soest 2007).

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

Two authors: (Kennedy and van Soest 2007)
Three or more authors: (Tatsuo et al. 2000)

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