How to format your references using the Developmental Psychology citation style

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

Yamamoto, A. (2000). Crowded universities cramp more than just students’ style. Nature, 404(6773), 13.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brasier, M., & Antcliffe, J. (2004). Paleobiology. Decoding the Ediacaran enigma. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5687), 1115–1117.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gerke, J., Lorenz, K., & Cohen, B. (2009). Genetic interactions between transcription factors cause natural variation in yeast. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5913), 498–501.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Abzhanov, A., Kuo, W. P., Hartmann, C., Grant, B. R., Grant, P. R., & Tabin, C. J. (2006). The calmodulin pathway and evolution of elongated beak morphology in Darwin’s finches. Nature, 442(7102), 563–567.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gowler, D. B. (2013). James Through the Centuries. John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Cloete, N., Maassen, P., Fehnel, R., Moja, T., Gibbon, T., & Perold, H. (Eds.). (2006). Transformation in Higher Education: Global Pressures and Local Realities (Vol. 10). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Carey, N. (2011). On a Class of Locally Symmetric Sequences: The Right Infinite Word Λ θ. In C. Agon, M. Andreatta, G. Assayag, E. Amiot, J. Bresson, & J. Mandereau (Eds.), Mathematics and Computation in Music: Third International Conference, MCM 2011, Paris, France, June 15-17, 2011. Proceedings (pp. 42–55). 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 Developmental Psychology.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015, September 4). Universal Pattern Governs Ratio Of Predators To Prey. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1987). FAA’s Air Traffic Controller Staffing Standards (T-RCED-88-8). 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

Tate, K. J. (2014). Utilizing Canines in a Public School Setting: A Case Study [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood 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

Brantley, B. (2016, September 12). An Intergalactic Odyssey via Puppets, Puns and Knock-Knock Jokes. New York Times, C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Yamamoto, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Brasier & Antcliffe, 2004; Yamamoto, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Brasier & Antcliffe, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Abzhanov et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Developmental Psychology
Abbreviation	Dev. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0012-1649
ISSN (online)	1939-0599
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Demography Life-span and Life-course Studies