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

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

Schlessinger, J. (2003). Signal transduction. Autoinhibition control. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5620), 750–752.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bonadonna, F., & Nevitt, G. A. (2004). Partner-specific odor recognition in an Antarctic seabird. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5697), 835.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hsiang, S. M., Meng, K. C., & Cane, M. A. (2011). Civil conflicts are associated with the global climate. Nature, 476(7361), 438–441.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Wang, X., Yang, C., Chai, J., Shi, Y., & Xue, D. (2002). Mechanisms of AIF-mediated apoptotic DNA degradation in Caenorhabditis elegans. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5598), 1587–1592.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zheng, F., & Kaiser, T. (2016). Digital Signal Processing for RFID. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Wang, P. P., Ruan, D., & Kerre, E. E. (Eds.). (2007). Fuzzy Logic: A Spectrum of Theoretical & Practical Issues (Vol. 215). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gergs, A., Classen, S., Strauss, T., Ottermanns, R., Brock, T. C. M., Ratte, H. T., Hommen, U., & Preuss, T. G. (2016). Ecological Recovery Potential of Freshwater Organisms: Consequences for Environmental Risk Assessment of Chemicals. In P. de Voogt (Ed.), Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Volume 236 (pp. 259–294). 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 Adolescence.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014, December 27). How To Find Faster-Than-Light Particles. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/do-neutrinos-have-imaginary-mass/

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. (1988). Transition Series: Information Technology Issues (OCG-89-6TR). 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

Das, A. (2013). Optimizing symbol timing, frequency spacing, and SNR estimation for communication systems [Doctoral dissertation]. University of California San Diego.

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

Feeney, K. (2010, July 25). King of Shish Kabob (With Mother-in-Law’s Help). New York Times, NJ11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schlessinger, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Bonadonna & Nevitt, 2004; Schlessinger, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Bonadonna & Nevitt, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Adolescence
Abbreviation	J. Adolesc.
ISSN (print)	0140-1971
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Psychiatry and Mental health Developmental and Educational Psychology Social Psychology