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. Thomas JM. Catalysis: Tens of thousands of atoms replaced by one. Nature. 2015;525:325–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Van Roy P, Briggs DEG. A giant Ordovician anomalocaridid. Nature. 2011;473:510–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Rougier GW, Forasiepi AM, Martinelli AG. Comment on “Independent origins of middle ear bones in monotremes and therians” (II). Science. 2005;309:1492; author reply 1492.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lu Y, Yeung N, Sieracki N, Marshall NM. Design of functional metalloproteins. Nature. 2009;460:855–62.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Decreusefond L, Moyal P. Stochastic Modeling and Analysis of Telecom Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Hofmann E. Performance Measurement and Incentive Systems in Purchasing: More Than Just Savings. Maucher D, Kotula M, Kreienbrink O, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Cambria E, Mazzocco T, Hussain A, Durrani T. Switching Between Different Ways to Think. In: Esposito A, Vinciarelli A, Vicsi K, Pelachaud C, Nijholt A, editors. Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication and Enactment The Processing Issues: COST 2102 International Conference, Budapest, Hungary, September 7-10, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 56–69.

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. Davis J. CRISPR Gene Editing Used To Edit Out Sickle Cell Mutation [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/crispr-gene-editing-used-to-edit-out-sickle-cell-mutation-/

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. Telephone Communications: Issues Affecting Rural Telephone Service. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987 Mar. Report No.: RCED-87-74.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Mc Adams AN. School psychologists’ perceptions of procedural fidelity in special education [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. Cox R, Lee L, Maharg-Bravo F, Hay G. Dunkin’ Offers A Bubble Lesson. New York Times. 2011 Jul 28;B2.

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

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