How to format your references using the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for 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	Download the output style file
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

Bohannon, J. (2008). The Gonzo Scientist. Can scientists dance? Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5865), 905.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bada, J. L., & Lazcano, A. (2002). Origin of life. Some like it hot, but not the first biomolecules. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5575), 1982–1983.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sakuda, A., Hayashi, A., & Tatsumisago, M. (2013). Sulfide solid electrolyte with favorable mechanical property for all-solid-state lithium battery. Scientific reports, 3, 2261.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hansen, C. J., Esposito, L., Stewart, A. I. F., Colwell, J., Hendrix, A., Pryor, W., et al. (2006). Enceladus’ water vapor plume. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5766), 1422–1425.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morrison, T. J. (2000). Functional Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Peterson, G., & Shenoi, S. (Eds.). (2014). Advances in Digital Forensics X: 10th IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference, Vienna, Austria, January 8-10, 2014, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 433). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gustafsson, B., Teodorescu, R., & Vasil’ev, A. (2014). Geometric Properties. In R. Teodorescu & A. Vasil’ev (Eds.), Classical and Stochastic Laplacian Growth (pp. 127–162). 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 Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, October 31). Primitive Meteorites Brought Water To Early Earth. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/primitive-meteorites-brought-water-early-earth/. 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. (2006). Space Acquisitions: DOD Needs Additional Knowledge as it Embarks on a New Approach for Transformational Satellite Communications System (No. GAO-06-537). 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

Malet, D. S. (2009). Foreign fighters: Transnational identity in civil conflicts (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Loomis, G. (2012, August 24). Changing the Formula at the Salzburg Festival. New York Times, p. 0.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bohannon 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Bada and Lazcano 2002; Bohannon 2008).

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

Two authors: (Bada and Lazcano 2002)
Three or more authors: (Hansen et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Abbreviation	J. Autism Dev. Disord.
ISSN (print)	0162-3257
ISSN (online)	1573-3432
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology