How to format your references using the Children and Youth Services Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Children and Youth Services Review. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

DeWeerdt, S. (2012). Psychodermatology: An emotional response. Nature, 492(7429), S62-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Uchida, M., & Tonomura, A. (2010). Generation of electron beams carrying orbital angular momentum. Nature, 464(7289), 737–739.

A journal article with 3 authors

Berger, J., Swenson, J. E., & Persson, I. L. (2001). Recolonizing carnivores and naïve prey: conservation lessons from Pleistocene extinctions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5506), 1036–1039.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Hu, Y.-C., Wu, L., Yan, L.-F., Wang, W., Wang, S.-M., Chen, B.-Y., Li, G.-F., Zhang, B., & Cui, G.-B. (2014). Predicting subtypes of thymic epithelial tumors using CT: new perspective based on a comprehensive analysis of 216 patients. Scientific Reports, 4, 6984.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lovejoy, D. A. (2005). Neuroendocrinology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gollmann, D., Meier, J., & Sabelfeld, A. (Eds.). (2006). Computer Security – ESORICS 2006: 11th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Hamburg, Germany, September 18-20, 2006. Proceedings (Vol. 4189). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Marmureanu, G., Cioflan, C. O., Marmureanu, A., & Manea, E. F. (2016). Main Characteristics of November 10, 1940 Strong Vrancea Earthquake in Seismological and Physics of Earthquake Terms. In R. Vacareanu & C. Ionescu (Eds.), The 1940 Vrancea Earthquake. Issues, Insights and Lessons Learnt: Proceedings of the Symposium Commemorating 75 Years from November 10, 1940 Vrancea Earthquake (pp. 73–83). 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 Children and Youth Services Review.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014, October 4). Watch Crocodiles Pluck Bats From The Air. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/crocodiles-pluck-bats-air-trying-different-gif-links/

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. (2009). Information Technology: Actions Needed to Fully Establish Program Management Capability for VA’s Financial and Logistics Initiative (GAO-10-40). 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

Coggin, L. L. (2014). Creating discourses of possibility: Storying between the real and the imagined to negotiate rural lives in two elementary classrooms [Doctoral dissertation]. Indiana University.

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

Hartocollis, A. (2014, February 19). And Surrogacy Makes 3. New York Times, E1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (DeWeerdt, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (DeWeerdt, 2012; Uchida & Tonomura, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Uchida & Tonomura, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Hu et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Children and Youth Services Review
Abbreviation	Child. Youth Serv. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0190-7409
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Education Sociology and Political Science