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

Zoghbi, H. Y. (2003). Postnatal neurodevelopmental disorders: meeting at the synapse? Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5646), 826–830.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bellwood, D. R., & Hughes, T. P. (2001). Regional-scale assembly rules and biodiversity of coral reefs. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5521), 1532–1535.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tsuchida, T., Koga, R., & Fukatsu, T. (2004). Host plant specialization governed by facultative symbiont. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5666), 1989.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hjouj, M., Lavee, J., Last, D., Guez, D., Daniels, D., Sharabi, S., et al. (2013). The effect of blood flow on magnetic resonance imaging of non thermal irreversible electroporation. Scientific reports, 3, 3088.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Metzger, R. M. (2012). The Physical Chemist’s Toolbox. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Zulkhibri, M., Ismail, A. G., & Hidayat, S. E. (Eds.). (2016). Macroprudential Regulation and Policy for the Islamic Financial Industry: Theory and Applications. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Kamp, L. M. (2010). Obstacles to and Facilitators of the Implementation of Small Urban Wind Turbines in the Netherlands. In J. Sarkis, J. J. Cordeiro, & D. Vazquez Brust (Eds.), Facilitating Sustainable Innovation through Collaboration: A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective (pp. 59–76). 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

Hale, T. (2016, December 14). The American Museum Of Natural History Cuts Financial Ties To Fossil Fuel Industry. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-american-museum-of-natural-history-cuts-financial-ties-to-fossil-fuel-industry/. 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. (1973). In-Flight Escape Systems for Helicopters Should Be Developed To Prevent Fatalities (No. B-177166). 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

Sahebjame, M. (2012). Marriage: An authentic Iranian experience of the modern (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

(nyt), S. K. (2003, January 29). World Briefing | Europe: Ukraine: Border Accord With Russia. New York Times, p. A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zoghbi 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Bellwood and Hughes 2001; Zoghbi 2003).

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

Two authors: (Bellwood and Hughes 2001)
Three or more authors: (Hjouj et al. 2013)

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