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

Chakravarti, A. (2009). Being human: kinship: race relations. Nature, 457(7228), 380–381.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vandermeer, J., & Perfecto, I. (2006). A keystone mutualism drives pattern in a power function. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5763), 1000–1002.

A journal article with 3 authors

Osborne, L. C., Lisberger, S. G., & Bialek, W. (2005). A sensory source for motor variation. Nature, 437(7057), 412–416.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yin, H., Pruyne, D., Huffaker, T. C., & Bretscher, A. (2000). Myosin V orientates the mitotic spindle in yeast. Nature, 406(6799), 1013–1015.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kar, P. (2013). Doping in Conjugated Polymers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Deville, M. O. (2012). Mathematical Modeling for Complex Fluids and Flows. (T. B. Gatski, Ed.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cadossi, R. (2007). From Academy to Industry: Translational Research in Biophysics. In T. Jarm, P. Kramar, & A. Zupanic (Eds.), 11th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biomedical Engineering and Computing 2007: MEDICON 2007, 26-30 June 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia (pp. 10–13). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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

Hale, T. (2016, September 21). “Biohackers” Show How To Make An EpiPen For $30. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/biohackers-show-how-to-make-an-epipen-for-30/. 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. (1993). Radio Marti (No. NSIAD-93-126R). 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

Chlarson-Varner, G. (2010). Falls among older adults 65 years and older (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

Crow, K. (2001, June 10). Neighbors Say a School Is Just a Growing Bully. New York Times, p. 147.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chakravarti 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Chakravarti 2009; Vandermeer and Perfecto 2006).

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

Two authors: (Vandermeer and Perfecto 2006)
Three or more authors: (Yin et al. 2000)

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

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