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

Jayaraman, K. S. (2000). Indian space agency sets its sights on a mission to the Moon. Nature, 406(6791), 5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goddéris, Y., & Donnadieu, Y. (2008). Carbon cycling and snowball Earth. Nature, 456(7224), E8; author reply E9-10.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ohmoto, H., Watanabe, Y., & Kumazawa, K. (2004). Evidence from massive siderite beds for a CO2-rich atmosphere before approximately 1.8 billion years ago. Nature, 429(6990), 395–399.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Pittermann, J., Sperry, J. S., Hacke, U. G., Wheeler, J. K., & Sikkema, E. H. (2005). Torus-margo pits help conifers compete with angiosperms. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5756), 1924.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marroni, L., & Perdomo, I. (2013). Pricing and Hedging Financial Derivatives. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Nakamaki, H., Hioki, K., Mitsui, I., & Takeuchi, Y. (Eds.). (2016). Enterprise as an Instrument of Civilization: An Anthropological Approach to Business Administration (1st ed. 2016., Vol. 4). Tokyo: Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Waldron, S. (2013). Group Frames. In P. G. Casazza & G. Kutyniok (Eds.), Finite Frames: Theory and Applications (pp. 171–191). Boston, MA: Birkhäuser.

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. (2017, January 6). London Breached Its Yearly Air Pollution Limit Just Five Days Into 2017. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/london-breached-yearly-air-pollution-limit-five-days-2017/. 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. (2010). Student Loans: Federal Web-based Tool on Private Loans Would Pose Implementation Challenges and May Be Unnecessary (No. GAO-10-990). 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

Momenteller, J. (2017). Optimization of Germination and Early Growth Conditions for Axenic Stanleya pinnata, a Potential Phytoremediation Candidate for Selenium (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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, April 26). Strides, Often Painful, but Always, Always Forward. New York Times, p. D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jayaraman 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Goddéris and Donnadieu 2008; Jayaraman 2000).

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

Two authors: (Goddéris and Donnadieu 2008)
Three or more authors: (Pittermann 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