How to format your references using the British Journal of Developmental Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for British Journal of Developmental 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Payne, M. R. (2013). Fisheries: climate change at the dinner table. Nature, 497(7449), 320–321.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gerde, E., & Marder, M. (2001). Friction and fracture. Nature, 413(6853), 285–288.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chávez, A. E., Singer, J. H., & Diamond, J. S. (2006). Fast neurotransmitter release triggered by Ca influx through AMPA-type glutamate receptors. Nature, 443(7112), 705–708.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Hu, C., Ahmed, M., Melia, T. J., Söllner, T. H., Mayer, T., & Rothman, J. E. (2003). Fusion of cells by flipped SNAREs. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5626), 1745–1749.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schepers, U. (2004). RNA Interference in Practice. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Chan, K.-L., & Embil, J. M. (Eds.). (2016). Endocarditis: Diagnosis and Management (2nd ed. 2016). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Piroi, F., & Winterhof, A. (2006). Quantum Period Reconstruction of Binary Sequences. In M. P. C. Fossorier, H. Imai, S. Lin, & A. Poli (Eds.), Applied Algebra, Algebraic Algorithms and Error-Correcting Codes: 16th International Symposium, AAECC-16, Las Vegas, NV, USA, February 20-24, 2006. Proceedings (pp. 60–67). 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 British Journal of Developmental Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, August 9). From Medical Treatment To Diet And Lifestyle Choice: How To Spot Unreliable Health Research. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/from-medical-treatment-to-diet-and-lifestyle-choice-how-to-spot-unreliable-health-research/

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. (2015). Indian Affairs: Further Actions on GAO Recommendations Needed to Address Systemic Management Challenges with Indian Education (GAO-15-597T). 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

Kim, H. (2008). Linkages Between Career Development and Career Technical Education Outcomes Among High Schools in New Jersey [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State 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

Crow, K. (2001, April 22). Sailors’ Quarters, Once 25 Cents. New York Times, 143.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Payne, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Gerde & Marder, 2001; Payne, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Gerde & Marder, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Hu et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	British Journal of Developmental Psychology
Abbreviation	Br. J. Dev. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0261-510X
ISSN (online)	2044-835X
Scope	Developmental Neuroscience Developmental and Educational Psychology