How to format your references using the Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Review 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	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

Webb, S. C. (2007). The Earth’s “hum” is driven by ocean waves over the continental shelves. Nature, 445(7129), 754–756.

A journal article with 2 authors

O’Neill, H. S. C., & Jenner, F. E. (2012). The global pattern of trace-element distributions in ocean floor basalts. Nature, 491(7426), 698–704.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lightowlers, R. N., Taylor, R. W., & Turnbull, D. M. (2015). Mutations causing mitochondrial disease: What is new and what challenges remain? Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6255), 1494–1499.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Tatar, M., Kopelman, A., Epstein, D., Tu, M. P., Yin, C. M., & Garofalo, R. S. (2001). A mutant Drosophila insulin receptor homolog that extends life-span and impairs neuroendocrine function. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5514), 107–110.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Benslama, M., Kiamouche, W., & Batatia, H. (2015). Connections Management Strategies in Satellite Cellular Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sami, N. (Ed.). (2016). Autoimmune Bullous Diseases: Approach and Management (1st ed. 2016.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Yin, Y., Kaku, I., Tang, J., & Zhu, J. (2011). Genetic Algorithm-based Fuzzy Nonlinear Programming. In I. Kaku, J. Tang, & J. Zhu (Eds.), Data Mining: Concepts, Methods and Applications in Management and Engineering Design (pp. 55–86). London: 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 Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, May 11). Your Gut Bacteria Don’t Like Junk Food – Even If You Do. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/your-gut-bacteria-don-t-junk-food-even-if-you-do/. 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. (1998). FCC: Unlicensed NII Devices in the 5 GHz Frequency Range (No. OGC-98-72). 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

Maranhao, B. (2015). Efficient identification of disease causative mutations with next generation sequencing technologies (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

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

Saslow, L. (2007, February 18). Two Legislative Seats To Be Filled on March 27. New York Times, p. 14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Webb 2007).
This sentence cites two references (O’Neill and Jenner 2012; Webb 2007).

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

Two authors: (O’Neill and Jenner 2012)
Three or more authors: (Tatar et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Abbreviation	Rev. J. Autism Dev. Disord.
ISSN (print)	2195-7177
ISSN (online)	2195-7185
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Behavioral Neuroscience Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental Neuroscience