How to format your references using the Development in Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Development in Practice. 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

Tobalske, Bret W. 2009. “Evolution. Symmetry in Turns.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 324 (5924): 190–191.

A journal article with 2 authors

Milne, Sally, and Robert Hinde. 2005. “Obituary: Joseph Rotblat 1908-2005.” Nature 437 (7059): 634.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tsukahara, Tatsuya, Yuji Tanno, and Yoshinori Watanabe. 2010. “Phosphorylation of the CPC by Cdk1 Promotes Chromosome Bi-Orientation.” Nature 467 (7316): 719–723.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Rijavec, Matija, Peter Korošec, Mateja Žavbi, Izidor Kern, and Mateja Marc Malovrh. 2014. “Let-7a Is Differentially Expressed in Bronchial Biopsies of Patients with Severe Asthma.” Scientific Reports 4 (August): 6103.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Forsberg, Krister, and S. Z. Mansdorf. 2005. Quick Selection Guide to Chemical Protective Clothing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Möller, Sebastian, and Alexander Raake, eds. 2014. Quality of Experience: Advanced Concepts, Applications and Methods. T-Labs Series in Telecommunication Services. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Ohmori, Tohru, Takamichi Hosaka, Tomoko Kanome, Fumiko Inoue, Koichi Ando, Takashi Hirose, Tsuyoki Kadofuku, and Mitsuru Adachi. 2009. “A Molecular Mechanism of Diminished Binding Activity between 15 Bp Deletion Mutant EGFR and C-Cbl Ubiquitin Ligase.” In New Trends in the Molecular and Biological Basis for Clinical Oncology, edited by Tetsuhiko Tachikawa, Kiyoshi Nose, Tohru Ohmori, and Mitsuru Adachi, 55–66. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

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 Development in Practice.

Blog post

Luntz, Stephen. 2014. “Huge Waves Spotted In The Arctic Ocean.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/huge-waves-spotted-arctic-ocean/.

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. 1988. Reports Issued in July 1988. 136598. 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

Mauger, Guillaume S. 2008. “Synoptic Sensitivities of Subtropical Clouds: Separating Aerosol Effects from Meteorology.” Doctoral dissertation, La Jolla, CA: University of California San Diego.

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

Vecsey, George. 2011. “Best Seat in House? It’s in the House.” New York Times, July 10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tobalske 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Tobalske 2009; Milne and Hinde 2005).

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

Two authors: (Milne and Hinde 2005)
Three authors: (Tsukahara, Tanno, and Watanabe 2010)
4 or more authors: (Rijavec et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Development in Practice
Abbreviation	Dev. Pract.
ISSN (print)	0961-4524
ISSN (online)	1364-9213
Scope	Development Geography, Planning and Development