How to format your references using the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. 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

Altman, M. S. (2010). Chemistry. CO prefers the aisle seat. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5967), 789–790.

A journal article with 2 authors

Toader, O., & John, S. (2001). Proposed square spiral microfabrication architecture for large three-dimensional photonic band gap crystals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5519), 1133–1135.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grima, J. N., Attard, D., & Gatt, R. (2011). Materials science. Unusual thermoelastic properties of methanol monohydrate. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6018), 687–688.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Nahlen, B. L., Korenromp, E. L., Miller, J. M., & Shibuya, K. (2005). Malaria risk: estimating clinical episodes of malaria. Nature, 437(7056), E3; discussion E4-5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pollak, P. (2011). Fine Chemicals. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bharitkar, S., & Kyriakakis, C. (Eds.). (2006). Immersive Audio Signal Processing. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Eden, P. (2015). The Practices of Apartheid as a War Crime: A Critical Analysis. In T. D. Gill, R. Geiß, R. Heinsch, T. McCormack, C. Paulussen, & J. Dorsey (Eds.), Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law 2013 (pp. 89–117). The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press.

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 Abnormal Child Psychology.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, August 6). Small Dog-Sized Dinosaur Discovered in Venezuela. 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. (1992). Attack Warning: Lack of System Architecture Contributes to Major Development Problems (No. IMTEC-92-52). 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

McGrew, C. (2008). Living with Diabetes: The Value of Everyday Communication (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Hanc, J. (2017, March 4). Straight From a Boomer’s Attic. New York Times, p. F8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Altman 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Altman 2010; Toader and John 2001).

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

Two authors: (Toader and John 2001)
Three or more authors: (Nahlen et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Abnorm. Child Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0091-0627
ISSN (online)	1573-2835
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Developmental and Educational Psychology