How to format your references using the Journal of Communication Disorders citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Communication 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

Diamond, J. (2014). Population history: Human melting pots in Southeast Asia. Nature, 512(7514), 262–263.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ize, B., & Palmer, T. (2006). Microbiology. Mycobacteria’s export strategy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5793), 1583–1584.

A journal article with 3 authors

Suzuki, G., Shimazu, N., & Tanaka, M. (2012). A yeast prion, Mod5, promotes acquired drug resistance and cell survival under environmental stress. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6079), 355–359.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Zou, Z., Ye, J., Sayama, K., & Arakawa, H. (2001). Direct splitting of water under visible light irradiation with an oxide semiconductor photocatalyst. Nature, 414(6864), 625–627.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tapiero, C. S. (2010). Risk Finance and Asset Pricing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bado, S. (2016). Protocols for Pre-Field Screening of Mutants for Salt Tolerance in Rice, Wheat and Barley (B. P. Forster, A. M. A. Ghanim, J. Jankowicz-Cieslak, G. Berthold, & L. Luxiang, Eds.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Verghese, K., & Carre, A. (2012). Applying Life Cycle Assessment. In K. Verghese, H. Lewis, & L. Fitzpatrick (Eds.), Packaging for Sustainability (pp. 171–210). 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 Communication Disorders.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, November 15). Why You Can Blame Evolution For Your Back Ache. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (1973). Training and Education Programs for Civilian Employees in the Federal Government (B-164031(1)). 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

Bathon, J. M. (2008). Examining the characteristics of school leaders and of local schools where Indiana educational leadership preparation programs place their graduates [Doctoral dissertation]. Indiana University.

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

Kelly, A. L. (1999, June 13). For Employed Moms, the Pinnacle Of Stress Comes After Work Ends. New York Times, 1518.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Diamond, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Diamond, 2014; Ize & Palmer, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Ize & Palmer, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Zou et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Communication Disorders
Abbreviation	J. Commun. Disord.
ISSN (print)	0021-9924
Scope	Cognitive Neuroscience LPN and LVN Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Linguistics and Language Speech and Hearing