How to format your references using the ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Rosenbaum TF (2000) A new spin on magnets. Nature 404:556–557

A journal article with 2 authors

Hector A, Hooper R (2002) Ecology. Darwin and the first ecological experiment. Science 295:639–640

A journal article with 3 authors

Mei L, Chen Y, Ma J (2014) Gas sensing of SnO2 nanocrystals revisited: developing ultra-sensitive sensors for detecting the H2S leakage of biogas. Sci Rep 4:6028

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tomaru Y, Toyoda K, Suzuki H, et al (2013) New single-stranded DNA virus with a unique genomic structure that infects marine diatom Chaetoceros setoensis. Sci Rep 3:3337

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carter KB (2014) Actionable Intelligence. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Berg B (2014) Plant Litter: Decomposition, Humus Formation, Carbon Sequestration, 3rd ed. 2014. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Herrera F, Villar E (2006) Mixing Synchronous Reactive and Untimed MoCs in SystemC. In: Vachoux A (ed) Applications of Specification and Design Languages for SoCs: Selected papers from FDL 2005. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 61–81

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 ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders.

Blog post

Andrew D (2015) What Would Asia Look Like If All The Earth’s Ice Melted? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-would-asia-look-if-all-earths-ice-melted/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1985) Support for Development of Electronics and Materials Technologies by the Governments of the United States, Japan, West Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rice HJ (2010) Before the Storm: Evacuation Intention and Audience Segmentation. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Barron J (2017) An Ink-Stained Reunion After Years of Digital Upheaval. New York Times A24

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rosenbaum 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Rosenbaum 2000; Hector and Hooper 2002).

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

Two authors: (Hector and Hooper 2002)
Three or more authors: (Tomaru et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders
Abbreviation	Atten. Defic. Hyperact. Disord.
ISSN (print)	1866-6116
ISSN (online)	1866-6647
Scope	General Medicine Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology