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

Jenkins, A. (2004). Graduate journal: a tough challenge. Nature, 427(6972), 378.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weiss, H., & Bradley, R. S. (2001). Archaeology. What drives societal collapse? Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5504), 609–610.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hoffmann, K. F., Brindley, P. J., & Berriman, M. (2014). Medicine. Halting harmful helminths. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6206), 168–169.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kampe, K. K., Frith, C. D., Dolan, R. J., & Frith, U. (2001). Reward value of attractiveness and gaze. Nature, 413(6856), 589.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hopkins, D. (2013). Reading Paradise Lost. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Beaudry, M. C., & Symonds, J. (Eds.). (2011). Interpreting the Early Modern World: Transatlantic Perspectives. Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Gautschi, H., & Gautschi, D. (2016). How Did We Get to Here? The Role of the State in Fostering Context. In D. Gautschi (Ed.), Technological Innovation and Economic Transformation: A Method for Contextual Analysis (pp. 77–119). Palgrave Macmillan US.

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, June 30). Why Is Saturn So Bizarrely Hot? 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. (1997). Highway Funding: The Federal Highway Administration’s Funding Apportionment Model (RCED-97-159). 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

Tahira, A. (2017). Synthesis of Bivalent Organothiophosphate Inhibitors and Their Inhibition of Butyrylcholinesterase: Studies towards a Potential Treatment of Cognitive Loss Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease [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

Crow, K. (2001, September 2). Survivors of the Winds of Change. New York Times, 143.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jenkins, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Jenkins, 2004; Weiss & Bradley, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Weiss & Bradley, 2001)
Three authors: (Hoffmann et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Kampe et al., 2001)

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

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