How to format your references using the Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Neurodevelopmental 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	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

1. Georghiou L. Europe’s research system must change. Nature. 2008;452:935–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Forcada J, Hoffman JI. Climate change selects for heterozygosity in a declining fur seal population. Nature. 2014;511:462–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lintunen A, Hölttä T, Kulmala M. Anatomical regulation of ice nucleation and cavitation helps trees to survive freezing and drought stress. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2031.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Furlong EE, Andersen EC, Null B, White KP, Scott MP. Patterns of gene expression during Drosophila mesoderm development. Science. 2001;293:1629–33.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Olofsson P. Probabilities. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

1. Marcus A, editor. Design, User Experience, and Usability: Interactive Experience Design: 4th International Conference, DUXU 2015, Held as Part of HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2-7, 2015, Proceedings, Part III. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Boër CR, Pedrazzoli P, Bettoni A, Sorlini M. Ideas and Trends from Research Activities. In: Pedrazzoli P, Bettoni A, Sorlini M, editors. Mass Customization and Sustainability: An assessment framework and industrial implementation. London: Springer; 2013. p. 169–82.

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 Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. How Cobras Learned To Spit Venom. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Stafford Student Loans: Millions of Dollars in Loans Awarded to Ineligible Borrowers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Dec. Report No.: IMTEC-91-7.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Haug JJ. A summer literacy intervention for struggling readers at the middle school level using strategies in comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, and positive school climate to improve reading comprehension: An evaluation study [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood University; 2010.

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

1. Poniewozik J. Mom Started a Job, So Dad Is Nervous About All His New Responsibilities. New York Times. 2016 Oct 23;C6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Abbreviation	J. Neurodev. Disord.
ISSN (print)	1866-1947
ISSN (online)	1866-1955
Scope	Clinical Neurology Pathology and Forensic Medicine Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Cognitive Neuroscience