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

Firestein, G. S. (2007). Biomedicine. Every joint has a silver lining. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5814), 952–953.

A journal article with 2 authors

McAndrew, P., & Scanlon, E. (2013). Education. Open learning at a distance: lessons for struggling MOOCs. Science (New York, N.Y.), 342(6165), 1450–1451.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brohawn, S. G., Campbell, E. B., & MacKinnon, R. (2014). Physical mechanism for gating and mechanosensitivity of the human TRAAK K+ channel. Nature, 516(7529), 126–130.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wang, W., Wang, Y., Tu, L., Feng, Y., Klein, T., & Wang, J.-P. (2014). Magnetoresistive performance and comparison of supermagnetic nanoparticles on giant magnetoresistive sensor-based detection system. Scientific reports, 4, 5716.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bromfield, R. (2010). Doing Therapy with Children and Adolescents with Asperger Syndrome. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hutter, K. (2016). Fluid and Thermodynamics: Volume 2: Advanced Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamic Fundamentals. (Y. Wang, Ed.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Vázquez Álvarez, A. J., & Erwin, R. S. (2015). Noncooperative Satellite Range Scheduling. In R. S. Erwin (Ed.), An Introduction to Optimal Satellite Range Scheduling (pp. 77–106). Cham: 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 Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, September 22). Scientists Create “Evolved” Protein That Stops Cancer Spreading In Mice. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-create-evolved-protein-stops-cancer-spreading-mice/. 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. (1992). Highway Contracting: Disadvantaged Business Eligibility Guidance and Oversight Are Ineffective (No. RCED-92-148). 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

Tengco, M. A. (2017). Quality Home Care: Providing Personal Care and Homemaking Services for Seniors in the Community (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Gurley, G. (2016, June 4). On the Town With a Fleet Week Newbie. New York Times, p. ST1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Firestein 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Firestein 2007; McAndrew and Scanlon 2013).

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

Two authors: (McAndrew and Scanlon 2013)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2014)

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