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

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

Nestler, E. J. (2003). Obituary: Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic (1937-2003). Nature, 425(6957), 471.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sawa, A., & Snyder, S. H. (2002). Schizophrenia: diverse approaches to a complex disease. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5568), 692–695.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aitken, C. M., Jones, D. M., & Larter, S. R. (2004). Anaerobic hydrocarbon biodegradation in deep subsurface oil reservoirs. Nature, 431(7006), 291–294.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Um, S., Fraimout, A., Sapountzis, P., Oh, D.-C., & Poulsen, M. (2013). The fungus-growing termite Macrotermes natalensis harbors bacillaene-producing Bacillus sp. that inhibit potentially antagonistic fungi. Scientific reports, 3, 3250.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sexton, D. (2009). Trump University Marketing 101. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Klug, C., Korn, D., De Baets, K., Kruta, I., & Mapes, R. H. (Eds.). (2015). Ammonoid Paleobiology: From macroevolution to paleogeography (Vol. 44). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Cerone, P., Dragomir, S. S., & Kikianty, E. (2014). Multiplicative Ostrowski and Trapezoid Inequalities. In T. M. Rassias (Ed.), Handbook of Functional Equations: Functional Inequalities (pp. 57–73). New York, NY: Springer.

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 and Adolescence.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2017, January 30). America’s Nobel Success Is The Story Of Immigrants. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office. (2004). Aviation Security: Challenges Exist in Stabilizing and Enhancing Passenger and Baggage Screening Operations (No. GAO-04-440T). 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

Trantham, L. C. (2012). PSA surveillance following radical prostatectomy: What we know and why it matters (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Detrick, B. (2017, October 7). Following a Giant’s Flamin’ Hot Footsteps. New York Times, p. ST8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nestler 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Nestler 2003; Sawa and Snyder 2002).

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

Two authors: (Sawa and Snyder 2002)
Three or more authors: (Um et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Youth and Adolescence
Abbreviation	J. Youth Adolesc.
ISSN (print)	0047-2891
ISSN (online)	1573-6601
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Social Psychology Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Education