How to format your references using the Autism in Adulthood citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Autism in Adulthood (AUT). 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

Saunders J. Physics. A glassy state of supersolid helium. Science 2009;324(5927):601–602.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jakse N, Pasturel A. Liquid Aluminum: atomic diffusion and viscosity from ab initio molecular dynamics. Sci Rep 2013;3:3135.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sherwood SC, Bony S, Dufresne J-L. Spread in model climate sensitivity traced to atmospheric convective mixing. Nature 2014;505(7481):37–42.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Silva J, Chambers I, Pollard S, et al. Nanog promotes transfer of pluripotency after cell fusion. Nature 2006;441(7096):997–1001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tjong SC. Polymer Composites with Carbonaceous Nanofillers. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany; 2012.

An edited book

David E, Larson K, Rogers A, et al., (eds). Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce. Designing Trading Strategies and Mechanisms for Electronic Markets: AMEC 2010, Toronto, ON, Canada, May 10, 2010, and TADA 2010, Cambridge, MA, USA, June 7, 2010 Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu F. Delineating the TGF-β/Smad-Induced Cytostatic Response. In: Smad Signal Transduction: Smads in Proliferation, Differentiation and Disease. (Dijke PT, Heldin C-H. eds). Proteins and Cell Regulation Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht; 2006; pp. 75–91.

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 Autism in Adulthood.

Blog post

Andrew E. Strangest Prehistoric Creatures To Ever Appear on Earth. IFLScience; 2014. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/strangest-prehistoric-creatures-ever-appear-earth/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Intercity Passenger Rail: Amtrak’s Financial Crisis Threatens Continued Viability. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kraynik MJ. Perceptions of U.S. Navy Managers toward Telecommuting as a Management Approach: A Phenomenological Study. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix: Phoenix, AZ; 2009.

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

Otis J. A Troubled Student Tries a New School, and It Alters the Course of Her Life. New York Times 2017;A19.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Autism in Adulthood
ISSN (print)	2573-9581
ISSN (online)	2573-959X
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