How to format your references using the Child Neuropsychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Child Neuropsychology. 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

Rodrigues, A. S. L. (2006). Ecology. Are global conservation efforts successful? Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5790), 1051–1052.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lucas, D., & Frenette, P. S. (2014). Stem cells: Reprogramming finds its niche. Nature, 511(7509), 301–302.

A journal article with 3 authors

Goldman, S. A., Nedergaard, M., & Windrem, M. S. (2012). Glial progenitor cell-based treatment and modeling of neurological disease. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6106), 491–495.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Gao, X.-Y., Huang, J.-O., Hu, Y.-F., Gu, Y., Zhu, S.-Z., Huang, K.-B., Chen, J.-Y., & Pan, S.-Y. (2014). Combination of mild hypothermia with neuroprotectants has greater neuroprotective effects during oxygen-glucose deprivation and reoxygenation-mediated neuronal injury. Scientific Reports, 4, 7091.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rajagopal, R. (2014). Sustainable Value Creation in the Fine and Speciality Chemicals Industry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Paranthaman, M. P., Wong-Ng, W., & Bhattacharya, R. N. (Eds.). (2016). Semiconductor Materials for Solar Photovoltaic Cells (1st ed. 2016, Vol. 218). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu, L., Fieguth, P., Wang, X., Pietikäinen, M., & Hu, D. (2016). Evaluation of LBP and Deep Texture Descriptors with a New Robustness Benchmark. In B. Leibe, J. Matas, N. Sebe, & M. Welling (Eds.), Computer Vision – ECCV 2016: 14th European Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 11-14, 2016, Proceedings, Part III (pp. 69–86). 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 Child Neuropsychology.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2016, July 14). Independent Populations Adopted Agriculture Within The Fertile Crescent. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/independent-populations-adopted-agriculture-within-the-fertile-crescent/

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. (1991). Student Loans: Direct Loans Could Save Money and Simplify Program Administration (HRD-91-144BR). 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

Kaplan, J. W. (2014). Not a sonata: A conception of Sonata-Allegro form and a consideration of two marimba works from a Langerian perspective [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

(nyt), S. K. (2002, May 29). World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Anti-Semitic Violence. New York Times, A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rodrigues, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Lucas & Frenette, 2014; Rodrigues, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Lucas & Frenette, 2014)
Three authors: (Goldman et al., 2012)
6 or more authors: (Gao et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Child Neuropsychology
Abbreviation	Child Neuropsychol.
ISSN (print)	0929-7049
ISSN (online)	1744-4136
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Developmental and Educational Psychology Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology