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

Ezawa, M. (2013) ‘High spin-Chern insulators with magnetic order’, Scientific reports 3: 3435.

A journal article with 2 authors

Esler, W. P. and Wolfe, M. S. (2001) ‘A portrait of Alzheimer secretases--new features and familiar faces’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 293(5534): 1449–54.

A journal article with 3 authors

Geng, W. T.; Wang, J.-S. and Olson, G. B. (2005) ‘Comment on “Grain boundary decohesion by impurity segregation in a nickel-sulfur system”’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 309(5741): 1677; author reply 1677.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhuang, J.; Chen, X.; Tan, Z.; Zhu, Y.; Zhao, K. and Yang, J. (2014) ‘A novel de novo duplication mutation of PAX6 in a Chinese family with aniridia and other ocular abnormalities’, Scientific reports 4: 4836.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coles, A. and Hawkins, D. G. (2011) MIDAS Technical Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Shi, Y.; Xu, W. and Chen, Z. (eds) (2005) Data Mining and Knowledge Management: Chinese Academy of Sciences Symposium CASDMKM 2004, Beijing, China, July 12-14, 2004. Revised Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

A chapter in an edited book

Gong, Z.; Lin, Y. and Yao, T. (2013) ‘Two-Tuple Linguistic Preference Relations’, in Y. Lin and T. Yao (eds) Uncertain Fuzzy Preference Relations and Their Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing).

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. (2014) Brain Abnormalities Discovered in Patients With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, IFLScience. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/brain-abnormalities-discovered-patients-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/ (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 (1999) National Airspace System: Review of FAA’s Spending for Operations. RCED/OGC/AIMD-99-222R. 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

Wadhwa, P. H. (2015) Secure Building Automation System Using Tesla Protocol. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Feeney, K. (2009) ‘To Your Health’, New York Times, 22 February, NJ9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ezawa, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Esler and Wolfe, 2001; Ezawa, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Esler and Wolfe, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Zhuang et al., 2014)

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