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

Stewart, L. (2014). Gerontology: Will you still need me, will you still feed me? Nature, 514(7522), S14-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pascual, A., & Préat, T. (2001). Localization of long-term memory within the Drosophila mushroom body. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5544), 1115–1117.

A journal article with 3 authors

Politi, A., Matthews, J. C. F., & O’Brien, J. L. (2009). Shor’s quantum factoring algorithm on a photonic chip. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5945), 1221.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Maira, S. M., Galetic, I., Brazil, D. P., Kaech, S., Ingley, E., Thelen, M., & Hemmings, B. A. (2001). Carboxyl-terminal modulator protein (CTMP), a negative regulator of PKB/Akt and v-Akt at the plasma membrane. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5541), 374–380.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hewitt, A. (2016). Construction Claims & Responses. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Nguyen, N. T., Blackstone, R. P., Morton, J. M., Ponce, J., & Rosenthal, R. J. (Eds.). (2015). The ASMBS Textbook of Bariatric Surgery: Volume 1: Bariatric Surgery. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Tambouret, R. H., & Wilbur, D. C. (2015). Cytology of Endocervical Glandular Neoplasia. In D. C. Wilbur (Ed.), Glandular Lesions of the Uterine Cervix: Cytopathology with Histologic Correlates (pp. 41–68). New York, NY: 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 Autism and Developmental Disorders.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, September 14). Lovesick Birds Are Worse Parents Than Happy Couples. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/lovesick-birds-are-worse-parents-happy-couples/. 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. (1977). The Summer Feeding Program: How to Feed the Children and Stop Program Abuses (No. CED-77-59). 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

Boylan, S. A. (2017). An exploratory case study: U. S. Army’s leadership development for organizational leaders (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Brantley, B. (2016, October 7). A Raging Diva, Centuries Before Soap Operas. New York Times, p. C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stewart 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Pascual and Préat 2001; Stewart 2014).

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

Two authors: (Pascual and Préat 2001)
Three or more authors: (Maira et al. 2001)

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