How to format your references using the European Journal of Developmental Psychology citation style

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

Abbott, A. (2011). Dementia: a problem for our age. Nature, 475(7355), S2-4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Phipps, R. J., & Gaunt, M. J. (2009). A meta-selective copper-catalyzed C-H bond arylation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5921), 1593–1597.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wise, C., Pawlyn, M., & Braungart, M. (2013). Eco-engineering: Living in a materials world. Nature, 494(7436), 172–175.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kawaguchi, R., Yu, J., Honda, J., Hu, J., Whitelegge, J., Ping, P., Wiita, P., Bok, D., & Sun, H. (2007). A membrane receptor for retinol binding protein mediates cellular uptake of vitamin A. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5813), 820–825.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kramer, H. (2013). Angewandte Baudynamik. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Zeng, D. (Ed.). (2012). Advances in Computer Science and Engineering (Vol. 141). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Léon, G. (2007). Cooperative Models for Information Technology Transfer in the Context of Open Innovation. In T. McMaster, D. Wastell, E. Ferneley, & J. I. DeGross (Eds.), Organizational Dynamics of Technology-Based Innovation: Diversifying the Research Agenda: IFIP TC 8 WG 8.6 International Working Conference, June 14–16, Manchester, UK (pp. 43–61). Springer 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 European Journal of Developmental Psychology.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2016, August 30). How Songbirds Island-Hopped Their Way From Australia To Colonize The World. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-songbirds-island-hopped-their-way-from-australia-to-colonize-the-world/

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). Reported Y2K Status of the 21 Largest U.S. Cities (AIMD-99-246R). 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

Li, X. (2008). Two essays on “mining market basket data: Models and applications in marketing” [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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. (2017, March 10). Fixing What Ain’t Broken. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2011; Phipps & Gaunt, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Phipps & Gaunt, 2009)
Three authors: (Wise et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Kawaguchi et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Developmental Psychology
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Dev. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1740-5629
ISSN (online)	1740-5610
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Social Psychology