How to format your references using the ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Garber K (2007) Science careers. Translational institute unites unlikely partners at Penn. Science 317:968–969

A journal article with 2 authors

Itoh S, Yurimoto H (2003) Contemporaneous formation of chondrules and refractory inclusions in the early Solar System. Nature 423:728–731

A journal article with 3 authors

Taylor BW, Flecker AS, Hall RO Jr (2006) Loss of a harvested fish species disrupts carbon flow in a diverse tropical river. Science 313:833–836

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Schneider U, Hackermüller L, Will S, et al (2008) Metallic and insulating phases of repulsively interacting fermions in a 3D optical lattice. Science 322:1520–1525

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Snopek L (2012) The Complete Guide to Portfolio Construction and Management. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex, UK

An edited book

Singh S, Singh M, Apte C, Perner P (eds) (2005) Pattern Recognition and Data Mining: Third International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition, ICAPR 2005, Bath, UK, August 22-25, 2005, Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Dym H, de Oliveira MC, Putinar M (2012) List of Contributors. In: Dym H, Oliveira MC de, Putinar M (eds) Mathematical Methods in Systems, Optimization, and Control: Festschrift in Honor of J. William Helton. Springer, Basel, pp 29–30

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 ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders.

Blog post

Hamilton K (2016) When Parents Disagree With Doctors On A Child’s Treatment, Who Should Have The Final Say? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/when-parents-disagree-with-doctors-on-a-childs-treatment-who-should-have-the-final-say/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1988) Air Force Contracting: Contracting for Maintenance of Training Aircraft at Columbus Air Force Base. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dhah S (2015) The relationship between job-embedded professional development and special education teacher self-efficacy in hard-to-staff middle schools. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Oestreich JR (2017) A Man on a Mission, and Then Another. New York Times AR8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Garber 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Itoh and Yurimoto 2003; Garber 2007).

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

Two authors: (Itoh and Yurimoto 2003)
Three or more authors: (Schneider et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders
Abbreviation	Atten. Defic. Hyperact. Disord.
ISSN (print)	1866-6116
ISSN (online)	1866-6647
Scope	General Medicine Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology