How to format your references using the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Autism and Developmental 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	Download the output style file
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

Brakenhoff, R. H. (2011). Cancer. Another NOTCH for cancer. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6046), 1102–1103.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martin, C. R., & Siwy, Z. S. (2007). Chemistry. Learning nature’s way: biosensing with synthetic nanopores. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5836), 331–332.

A journal article with 3 authors

Holland, N. D., Holland, L. Z., & Holland, P. W. H. (2015). Scenarios for the making of vertebrates. Nature, 520(7548), 450–455.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zhang, Y., Liu, Z., Zhao, Y., Wang, W., Li, J., & Xu, J. (2014). Mesoscale eddies transport deep-sea sediments. Scientific reports, 4, 5937.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simko, S. P. (2012). Strategic Fixed Income Investing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Xia, Y. (Ed.). (2015). Neural Functions of the Delta-Opioid Receptor (1st ed. 2015.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Orton, D. C. (2016). Archaeology as a Tool for Understanding Past Marine Resource Use and Its Impact. In K. Schwerdtner Máñez & B. Poulsen (Eds.), Perspectives on Oceans Past (pp. 47–69). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Autism and Developmental Disorders.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2015, November 9). “Oscars Of Science” Awarded At Star-Studded Awards Ceremony. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/years-oscars-science-have-been-revealed/. 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. (1998). Information Technology: Department of Energy Does Not Effectively Manage Its Supercomputers (No. RCED-98-208). 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

Pyzdrowski, J. E. (2017). Experiences of Advisors/Mentors in Developing Leadership Emergence in a Post Conflict, Marginalized Society: A Phenomenological Study (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Crow, K. (2002, July 28). Use Any Color Shopping Bag, So Long as It’s Red. New York Times, p. 145.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brakenhoff 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Brakenhoff 2011; Martin and Siwy 2007).

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

Two authors: (Martin and Siwy 2007)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Abbreviation	J. Autism Dev. Disord.
ISSN (print)	0162-3257
ISSN (online)	1573-3432
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology