How to format your references using the Development Policy Review citation style

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

Petherick, A. (2010) ‘Campaigning for Chagas disease’, Nature 465(7301): S21-2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Orphanides, G. and Reinberg, D. (2000) ‘RNA polymerase II elongation through chromatin’, Nature 407(6803): 471–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Krishnan, M.; Ugaz, V. M. and Burns, M. A. (2002) ‘PCR in a Rayleigh-Bénard convection cell’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 298(5594): 793.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Briscoe, W. H.; Titmuss, S.; Tiberg, F.; Thomas, R. K.; McGillivray, D. J. and Klein, J. (2006) ‘Boundary lubrication under water’, Nature 444(7116): 191–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Harris, J. (2013) The Utopian Globalists. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Pawankar, R.; Holgate, S. T. and Rosenwasser, L. J. (eds) (2009) Allergy Frontiers: Classification and Pathomechanisms. Tokyo: Springer Japan (Allergy Frontiers).

A chapter in an edited book

Leong, W. and Wang, D.-A. (2014) ‘Engineering Biomaterials for Anchorage-Dependent and Non-anchorage-Dependent Therapeutic Cell Delivery in Translational Medicine’, in W. Cai (ed.) Engineering in Translational Medicine. London: 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 Development Policy Review.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015) Why Menthol Chills Your Mouth When It’s Not Actually Cold, IFLScience. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/why-menthol-chills-your-mouth-when-it-s-not-actually-cold/ (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 (1998) Schools and Libraries Corporation: Actions Needed to Strengthen Program Integrity Operations Before Committing Funds. T-RCED-98-243. 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

Wolfe, C. J. (2012) Dimensions of Purchasing Social Responsibility in Sustainable Supply Chain Organizations. Doctoral dissertation. Northcentral 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

Gustines, G. G. (2016) ‘These Superheros Come With Lipstick’, New York Times, 14 February, ST8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Petherick, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Orphanides and Reinberg, 2000; Petherick, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Orphanides and Reinberg, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Briscoe et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Development Policy Review
Abbreviation	Dev. Policy Rev.
ISSN (print)	0950-6764
ISSN (online)	1467-7679
Scope	Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Development Geography, Planning and Development