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

Chi, K. R. (2009). Microscopy: Ever-increasing resolution. Nature, 462(7273), 675–678.

A journal article with 2 authors

Xi, R., & Xie, T. (2005). Stem cell self-renewal controlled by chromatin remodeling factors. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5753), 1487–1489.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schaller, M. F., Wright, J. D., & Kent, D. V. (2011). Atmospheric PCO₂ perturbations associated with the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6023), 1404–1409.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Fan, H., Lu, Y., Stump, A., Reed, S. T., Baer, T., Schunk, R., et al. (2000). Rapid prototyping of patterned functional nanostructures. Nature, 405(6782), 56–60.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. (2014). Guidelines for Determining the Probability of Ignition of a Released Flammable Mass. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Zhu, Y. T., & Varyukhin, V. (Eds.). (2006). Nanostructured Materials by High-Pressure Severe Plastic Deformation (Vol. 212). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Ibarra, M. C., Castillo, O., & Soria, J. (2013). Designing Systematic Stable Fuzzy Logic Controllers by Fuzzy Lyapunov Synthesis. In O. Castillo, P. Melin, & J. Kacprzyk (Eds.), Recent Advances on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (pp. 63–79). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Abnormal Child Psychology.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2015, November 6). Study Suggests Women Are Bisexual Or Gay, But Almost Never Straight. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/study-suggests-women-are-all-bisexual-or-gay-almost-never-straight/. 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. (2000). Contract Management: Few Competing Proposals for Large DOD Information Technology Orders (No. NSIAD-00-56). 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

Rakusin, L. L. (2010). Intervening to reduce adolescent substance abuse: A grant proposal (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Vecsey, G. (2010, June 14). Sampling the Flavors of the City’s Cup. New York Times, p. D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chi 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Chi 2009; Xi and Xie 2005).

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

Two authors: (Xi and Xie 2005)
Three or more authors: (Fan et al. 2000)

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