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

Dustin, M. L. (2006). Immunology. When F-actin becomes too much of a good thing. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5788), 767–768.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hager, R., & Johnstone, R. A. (2003). The genetic basis of family conflict resolution in mice. Nature, 421(6922), 533–535.

A journal article with 3 authors

Newsome, T. P., Scaplehorn, N., & Way, M. (2004). SRC mediates a switch from microtubule- to actin-based motility of vaccinia virus. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5693), 124–129.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Rowland, H. D., King, W. P., Pethica, J. B., & Cross, G. L. W. (2008). Molecular confinement accelerates deformation of entangled polymers during squeeze flow. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5902), 720–724.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Equipment Testing Procedures Committee of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. (2014). Trayed and Packed Columns. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Guelfi, M. R., Masoni, M., Conti, A., & Gensini, G. F. (Eds.). (2011). E-learning in sanità: Progettare, produrre ed erogare corsi di formazione online per l’area sanitaria. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Krylov, A., & Nasonov, A. (2011). Edge-Directed Image Interpolation Using Color Gradient Information. In G. Maino & G. L. Foresti (Eds.), Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2011: 16th International Conference, Ravenna, Italy, September 14-16, 2011, Proceedings, Part II (pp. 40–49). 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

Andrew, E. (2013, December 18). Milky Way galaxy has four arms, not two. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/milky-way-galaxy-has-four-arms-not-two/

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). Information Technology Workers: Employment and Starting Salaries (HEHS-98-159R). 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

Ilag, G. M. (2014). An examination of the entity participants’ collaborative partnerships within the United Nations Global Compact [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Craig, S., & Chen, D. W. (2016, February 23). Trump in New York: Deep Roots, but Little Sway. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dustin, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Dustin, 2006; Hager & Johnstone, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Hager & Johnstone, 2003)
Three authors: (Newsome et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Rowland et al., 2008)

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