How to format your references using the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. 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

Smaglik, P. (2002). A youthful field. Nature, 419(6908), 3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tsymbal, E. Y., & Kohlstedt, H. (2006). Applied physics. Tunneling across a ferroelectric. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5784), 181–183.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stanger, B. Z., Tanaka, A. J., & Melton, D. A. (2007). Organ size is limited by the number of embryonic progenitor cells in the pancreas but not the liver. Nature, 445(7130), 886–891.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Chichak, K. S., Cantrill, S. J., Pease, A. R., Chiu, S.-H., Cave, G. W. V., Atwood, J. L., & Stoddart, J. F. (2004). Molecular borromean rings. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5675), 1308–1312.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bhalla, S., Moharana, S., Talakokula, V., & Kaur, N. (2016). Piezoelectric Materials. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Celikyilmaz, A. (2009). Modeling Uncertainty with Fuzzy Logic: With Recent Theory and Applications. (I. B. Türksen, Ed.) (Vol. 240). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Selvan, S. T., & Narayanan, K. (2016). Multifunctional Nanoparticles. In K. Narayanan (Ed.), Introduction to Nanotheranostics (pp. 69–79). Singapore: 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 Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, August 13). To Avoid Fights, Male Elephant Seals Remember The Calls Of Their Rivals. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/avoid-fights-male-elephant-seals-remember-calls-their-rivals/. 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. (1974). FDA’s Activities Involving Sanitary Conditions at Food Shortage Warehouses (No. 095804). 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

Bottorff, A. K. (2010). Evaluating summer school programs and the effect on student achievement: The correlation between Stanford-10 standardized test scores and two different summer programs (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Stewart, J. B. (2016, September 2). Tax Cuts for Americans Like Trump. New York Times, p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2002; Tsymbal and Kohlstedt 2006).

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

Two authors: (Tsymbal and Kohlstedt 2006)
Three or more authors: (Chichak et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Abnorm. Child Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0091-0627
ISSN (online)	1573-2835
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Developmental and Educational Psychology