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

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

Bornholdt, S. (2005). Systems biology. Less is more in modeling large genetic networks. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5747), 449–451.

A journal article with 2 authors

van Doorn, G. S., & Kirkpatrick, M. (2007). Turnover of sex chromosomes induced by sexual conflict. Nature, 449(7164), 909–912.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chuck, A. L., Turner, S. M., & Liss, P. S. (2002). Direct evidence for a marine source of C1 and C2 alkyl nitrates. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5584), 1151–1154.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Hatzivassiliou, G., Song, K., Yen, I., Brandhuber, B. J., Anderson, D. J., Alvarado, R., Ludlam, M. J. C., Stokoe, D., Gloor, S. L., Vigers, G., Morales, T., Aliagas, I., Liu, B., Sideris, S., Hoeflich, K. P., Jaiswal, B. S., Seshagiri, S., Koeppen, H., Belvin, M., … Malek, S. (2010). RAF inhibitors prime wild-type RAF to activate the MAPK pathway and enhance growth. Nature, 464(7287), 431–435.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sahalos, J. N. (2006). Orthogonal Methods for Array Synthesis. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Even, G., & Rawitz, D. (Eds.). (2012). Design and Analysis of Algorithms: First Mediterranean Conference on Algorithms, MedAlg 2012, Kibbutz Ein Gedi, Israel, December 3-5, 2012. Proceedings (Vol. 7659). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lind, G. (2016). Fostering Minerals Workforce Skills of Tomorrow through Education and Training Partnerships. In P. J. Mackey, E. J. Grimsey, R. T. Jones, & G. A. Brooks (Eds.), Celebrating the Megascale: Proceedings of the Extraction and Processing Division Symposium on Pyrometallurgy in Honor of David G.C. Robertson (pp. 77–84). 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 International Journal of Adolescence and Youth.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 28). Dutch Architects Create A Habitable Windmill That Could Power A City. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/dutch-architects-create-habitable-windmill-could-power-city/

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). Budgetary Implications of IRS’ Tax System Modernization and Automated Examination System Efforts (T-IMTEC-89-4). 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

Salie, A. (2008). Servant-minded leadership and work satisfaction in Islamic organizations: A correlational mixed study [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Kelly, H. (2015, August 16). Mother’s Disapproval. New York Times, BR14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bornholdt, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Bornholdt, 2005; van Doorn & Kirkpatrick, 2007).

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

Two authors: (van Doorn & Kirkpatrick, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Hatzivassiliou et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Adolescence and Youth
Abbreviation	Int. J. Adolesc. Youth
ISSN (print)	0267-3843
ISSN (online)	2164-4527
Scope	Health(social science)