How to format your references using the Journal of Adolescent Health citation style

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

[1]

Eichenbaum H. Neuroscience. Dedicated to memory? Science 2010;330:1331–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hudson PJ, Bjørnstad ON. Ecology. Vole stranglers and lemming cycles. Science 2003;302:797–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Heierli J, Gumbsch P, Zaiser M. Anticrack nucleation as triggering mechanism for snow slab avalanches. Science 2008;321:240–3.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Lea DW, Pak DK, Peterson LC, et al. Synchroneity of tropical and high-latitude Atlantic temperatures over the last glacial termination. Science 2003;301:1361–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Shick PL. Topology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

[1]

A. Papa D. Multi-Objective Optimization in Physical Synthesis of Integrated Circuits. vol. 166. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Aziz SW, Aziz MH. Major Signaling Pathways Involved in Breast Cancer. In: Ahmad A, editor. Breast Cancer Metastasis and Drug Resistance: Progress and Prospects, New York, NY: Springer; 2013, p. 47–64.

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 Adolescent Health.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J. How Borneo’s Unique Mountain Wildlife Evolved. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-borneos-unique-mountain-wildlife-evolved/. AccessedOctober 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Status of Tax Systems Modernization, Tax Delinquencies, and the Potential for Return-Free Filing. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Jensen ME. A comparison of school psychologists’ and school counselors’ ability to identify cognitive abilities underlying basic academic tasks. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2010.

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

[1]

Pilon M. Chronicling The Business Of the Games. New York Times 2012:SP3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Adolescent Health
Abbreviation	J. Adolesc. Health
ISSN (print)	1054-139X
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Psychiatry and Mental health Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health