How to format your references using the Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Research in Autism Spectrum 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

Meyer, A. (2004). Learning from the Altmeister. Nature, 428(6986), 897.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schlein, Y., & Jacobson, R. L. (2001). Hunger tolerance and Leishmania in sandflies. Nature, 414(6860), 168.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, L., Dudin, Y. O., & Kuzmich, A. (2013). Entanglement between light and an optical atomic excitation. Nature, 498(7455), 466–469.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hinkov, V., Pailhès, S., Bourges, P., Sidis, Y., Ivanov, A., Kulakov, A., Lin, C. T., Chen, D. P., Bernhard, C., & Keimer, B. (2004). Two-dimensional geometry of spin excitations in the high-transition-temperature superconductor YBa2Cu3O6+x. Nature, 430(7000), 650–654.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hunt, P. J., & Kennedy, J. E. (2005). Financial Derivatives in Theory and Practice: Hunt/Financial Derivatives. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Shapiro, C. J., & Harper Browne, C. (Eds.). (2016). Innovative Approaches to Supporting Families of Young Children. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Santiano, B. J. (2016). Common Sense, Use the Right Tool for the Job. In P. Sampaio & P. Saraiva (Eds.), Quality in the 21st Century: Perspectives from ASQ Feigenbaum Medal Winners (pp. 49–56). Springer International Publishing.

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 Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2017, March 23). Boiling Water Behaves Extremely Weirdly Aboard The ISS. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/boiling-water-behaves-extremely-weirdly-aboard-iss/

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. (2008). Performance and Accountability Highlights Fiscal Year 2007 (GAO-08-2SP). 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

Konggidinata, M. I. (2017). Application and Modifications of Ordered Mesoporous Carbon (OMC) for BTEX Removal: Characterization, Adsorption Mechanisms, and Kinetic Studies [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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

Perry, W. J., & Shultz, G. P. (2010, April 11). How to Build on the Start Treaty. New York Times, WK11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Meyer, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Meyer, 2004; Schlein & Jacobson, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Schlein & Jacobson, 2001)
Three authors: (Li et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Hinkov et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Abbreviation	Res. Autism Spectr. Disord.
ISSN (print)	1750-9467
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Developmental and Educational Psychology