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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Youth Studies. 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	Download the output style file
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

Dalton, R. 2000. “Los Alamos ‘loses’ Key Weapons Data.” Nature 405 (6788): 725.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bayley, H., and P. S. Cremer. 2001. “Stochastic Sensors Inspired by Biology.” Nature 413 (6852): 226–230.

A journal article with 3 authors

Merritt, Jeremy M., Vladimir E. Bondybey, and Michael C. Heaven. 2009. “Beryllium Dimer--Caught in the Act of Bonding.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 324 (5934): 1548–1551.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Murphy, W. J., E. Eizirik, W. E. Johnson, Y. P. Zhang, O. A. Ryder, and S. J. O’Brien. 2001. “Molecular Phylogenetics and the Origins of Placental Mammals.” Nature 409 (6820): 614–618.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wartewig, Siegfried. 2005. IR and Raman Spectroscopy. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Stokes-DuPass, Nicole, and Ramona Fruja, eds. 2016. Citizenship, Belonging, and Nation-States in the Twenty-First Century. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US.

A chapter in an edited book

Hwang, Yoon-Suk, and Patrick Kearney. 2015. “Study Two: Mindfulness Intervention for Children.” In A Mindfulness Intervention for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: New Directions in Research and Practice, edited by Patrick Kearney, 93–125. Mindfulness in Behavioral Health. Cham: 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 Youth Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Diabetes Drug Boosts Fertility In Obese Female Mice.” 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. 1987. Battlefield Automation: Better Justification and Testing Needed for Common Computer Acquisition. IMTEC-88-12. 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

Luna, Michael. 2017. “A Case Study of the Influence of Multipurpose Spaces on Campus Life at an Institution of Art and Design.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Burghardt, Linda F. 2006. “A Symbol of Carefree, Innocent Fun? Not in Oyster Bay.” New York Times, May 28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dalton 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Dalton 2000; Bayley and Cremer 2001).

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

Two authors: (Bayley and Cremer 2001)
Three authors: (Merritt, Bondybey, and Heaven 2009)
4 or more authors: (Murphy et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Youth Studies
Abbreviation	J. Youth Stud.
ISSN (print)	1367-6261
ISSN (online)	1469-9680
Scope	General Social Sciences Sociology and Political Science Life-span and Life-course Studies