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

Schmelcher P (2012) Chemistry. Molecule formation in ultrahigh magnetic fields. Science 337:302–303

A journal article with 2 authors

McEvoy MA, Correll N (2015) Materials science. Materials that couple sensing, actuation, computation, and communication. Science 347:1261689

A journal article with 3 authors

Ganem NJ, Godinho SA, Pellman D (2009) A mechanism linking extra centrosomes to chromosomal instability. Nature 460:278–282

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kamanu TKK, Radovanovic A, Archer JAC, Bajic VB (2013) Exploration of miRNA families for hypotheses generation. Sci Rep 3:2940

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gowler DB (2013) James Through the Centuries. John Wiley & Sons, Oxford

An edited book

Bialik R, Majdański M, Moskalik M (eds) (2014) Achievements, History and Challenges in Geophysics: 60th Anniversary of the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Lim WJ, Jambek AB, Neoh SC, et al (2015) Strength Pareto Evolutionary Algorithm 2 in Optimizing Ninth Order Multiple Feedback Chebyshev Low Pass Filter. In: Sulaiman HA, Othman MA, Abd. Aziz MZA, Abd Malek MF (eds) Theory and Applications of Applied Electromagnetics: APPEIC 2014. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 31–39

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

Taub B (2016) Woman Has Baby Using Ovary Frozen When She Was A Child. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/woman-has-baby-using-frozen-ovary-when-she-was-child/. 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 (2004) Financial Management Systems: HHS Faces Many Challenges in Implementing Its Unified Financial Management System. 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

Ortiz Martinez B (2009) Diabetes among older Latino adults. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Yablonsky L (2011) Coast Garde. New York Times M224

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schmelcher 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Schmelcher 2012; McEvoy and Correll 2015).

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

Two authors: (McEvoy and Correll 2015)
Three or more authors: (Kamanu et al. 2013)

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