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. Kampinga HH. Cell biology. A cell death avenue evolved from a life-saving path. Science. 2014;344:1341–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Straneo F, Heimbach P. North Atlantic warming and the retreat of Greenland’s outlet glaciers. Nature. 2013;504:36–43.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lee A, Dennis C, Campbell P. Nature’s guide for mentors. Nature. 2007;447:791–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Chen M, Wang Y-H, Wang Y, Huang L, Sandoval H, Liu Y-J, et al. Dendritic cell apoptosis in the maintenance of immune tolerance. Science. 2006;311:1160–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Martinelli RJ, Waddell JM, Rahschulte TJ. Program Management for Improved Business Results. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

1. Ratchev S, editor. Precision Assembly Technologies and Systems: 7th IFIP WG 5.5 International Precision Assembly Seminar, IPAS 2014, Chamonix, France, February 16-18, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Cremona JE, Aranés MT. Congruence Subgroups, Cusps and Manin Symbols over Number Fields. In: Böckle G, Wiese G, editors. Computations with Modular Forms: Proceedings of a Summer School and Conference, Heidelberg, August/September 2011. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 109–27.

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. Taub B. Our Brains Are Naturally Prejudiced Against Minorities, Study Finds [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/our-brains-naturally-prejudiced-against-minorities/

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. Improvements Needed in DOT’s Hazardous Materials Rail Safety Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 Nov. Report No.: T-RCED-90-13.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Powers KL. Real-time video streaming: Impact on maternal anxiety and the maternal-infant bond [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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. Vecsey G. The Dangerous Cocoon Of King Football. New York Times. 2011 Nov 8;B16.

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