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

Bodelier, P. L. E. (2015). Sustainability: Bypassing the methane cycle. Nature, 523(7562), 534–535.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tapscott, S. J., & Thornton, C. A. (2001). Biomedicine. Reconstructing myotonic dystrophy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5531), 816–817.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zheng, N., Bu, X., & Feng, P. (2003). Synthetic design of crystalline inorganic chalcogenides exhibiting fast-ion conductivity. Nature, 426(6965), 428–432.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kafsack, B. F. C., Pena, J. D. O., Coppens, I., Ravindran, S., Boothroyd, J. C., & Carruthers, V. B. (2009). Rapid membrane disruption by a perforin-like protein facilitates parasite exit from host cells. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5913), 530–533.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wiedenmannott, W. (2016). Industrielle Wasseraufbereitung. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Bonifacio, G. T. (Ed.). (2012). Feminism and Migration: Cross-Cultural Engagements (Vol. 1). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Curry, G. L., & Feldman, R. M. (2009). Processing Time Variability. In R. M. Feldman (Ed.), Manufacturing Systems Modeling and Analysis (pp. 109–123). 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 Autism and Developmental Disorders.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2016, May 6). What’s Mother’s Day If You’ve Been Born In A Machine And Raised By Robots? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/what-s-mother-s-day-if-you-ve-been-born-machine-and-raised-robots/. 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. (2002). National Airspace System: Status of FAA’s Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (No. GAO-02-1071). 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

Kharal, S. P. (2017). Modelling Sensitization Dynamics in 5xxx Series Aluminum Alloys (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Marx, L. (2017, January 26). A Nascar Driver Finds His ‘Shooting Star.’ New York Times, p. ST9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bodelier 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bodelier 2015; Tapscott and Thornton 2001).

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

Two authors: (Tapscott and Thornton 2001)
Three or more authors: (Kafsack et al. 2009)

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

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