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The preferred citation for the RCADS-47 is:

Chorpita, B. F., Yim, L. M., Moffitt, C. E., Umemoto L. A., & Francis, S. E. (2000). Assessment of symptoms of DSM-IV anxiety and depression in children: A Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 38, 835-855. 

The preferred citation for the RCADS-25 is:

Ebesutani, C., Reise, S., Chorpita, B. F., Ale, C., Regan, J., Young, J., Higa-McMillan, C., & Weisz, J. (2012). The Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale - Short Version: Scale reduction via exploratory bifactor modeling of the broad anxiety factor. Psychological Assessment, 24, 833-845. 

Below is a partial list of some psychometric research on the RCADS. For a more complete list of research using the RCADS, see Google Scholar or the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

Bouvard, M. & Denis, A. (2012). Reliability of the test-retest of the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS) and the assessment grid of the revised version of the Scale for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED-R). Encephale-Revue de Psychiatrie Clinique Biologique et Therapeutique, 38, 524-525. 

Chorpita, B. F., Yim, L. M., Moffitt, C. E., Umemoto L. A., & Francis, S. E. (2000). Assessment of symptoms of DSM-IV anxiety and depression in children: A Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 38, 835-855. 

Chorpita, B. F., Moffitt, C. E., Gray, J. A. (2005). Psychometric properties of the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale in a clinical sample. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 43, 309-322. 

Chorpita, B. F., & Nakamura, B. J. (2008). Dynamic structure in diagnostic structured interviewing: A comparative test of accuracy and efficiency. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 30, 52-60. 

de Ross, R. L., Gullone, E., & Chorpita, B. F. (2002). The Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale: A psychometric investigation with Australian youth. Behaviour Change, 19, 90-101. 

Ebesutani, C., Bernstein, A., Nakamura, B., Chorpita, B. F., & Weisz, J. (2010). A psychometric analysis of the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale - Parent Version in a clinical sample. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 38, 249-260. 

Ebesutani, C., Chorpita, B. F., Higa-McMillan, C., Nakamura, B., Regan, J., & Lynch, R. E. (2011). A psychometric evaluation of the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale – Parent Version in a school sample. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology

Ebesutani, C., Reise, S., Chorpita, B. F., Ale, C., Regan, J., Young, J., Higa-McMillan, C., & Weisz, J. (2012). The Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale - Short Version: Scale reduction via exploratory bifactor modeling of the broad anxiety factor. Psychological Assessment, 24, 833-845. 

Mathyssek, C. M., Olino, T. M., Hartman, C. A., Verhulst, F. C., & Van Oort, F. V. (2013). Does the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS) measure anxiety symptoms consistently across adolescence? The TRAILS study. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 22, 27-35. 

Mehmood, T., & Sarwat, S. (2014). Translation and adaptation of Revised Children's Anxiety and Depression Scale. International Journal of Liberal Arts and Social Science, 2, 95-106. 7 

Muris, P., Merckelbach, H., Ollendick, T., King, N., & Bogie, N. (2002). Three traditional and three new childhood anxiety questionnaires: Their reliability and validity in a normal adolescent sample. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 21, 685–692. 

Muris, P., Dreesen, L., Bogels, S., Weckx, M., & van Melick, M. (2004). A questionnaire for screening a broad range of DSM defined anxiety disorder symptoms in clinically referred children and adolescents. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry,45,813–820.