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

Wang, K. (2014). Sampling biases in datasets of historical mean air temperature over land. Scientific Reports, 4, 4637.

A journal article with 2 authors

Xie, J., & Black, D. L. (2001). A CaMK IV responsive RNA element mediates depolarization-induced alternative splicing of ion channels. Nature, 410(6831), 936–939.

A journal article with 3 authors

McCormick, M. I., Watson, S.-A., & Munday, P. L. (2013). Ocean acidification reverses competition for space as habitats degrade. Scientific Reports, 3, 3280.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Gao, Z., Hou, L., Xu, M., & Tang, D. (2014). Enhanced colorimetric immunoassay accompanying with enzyme cascade amplification strategy for ultrasensitive detection of low-abundance protein. Scientific Reports, 4, 3966.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Flood, J. M. (2014). Practitioner’s Guide to GAAS 2014. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gourtsoyiannis, N. C. (Ed.). (2011). Clinical MRI of the Abdomen: Why,How,When. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Sirenko, Y. K., & Ström, S. (2010). Modeling and Analysis of Transients in Periodic Structures: Fully Absorbing Boundaries for 2-D Open Problems. In Y. K. Sirenko & S. Ström (Eds.), Modern Theory of Gratings: Resonant Scattering: Analysis Techniques and Phenomena (pp. 211–333). 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 European Journal of Developmental Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, May 21). Researchers Reveal Smallest, Fastest Nanomotor Yet. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/researchers-reveal-smallest-fastest-nanomotor-yet/

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. (1995). Department of Transportation: Issues Related to Transportation Funding (T-RCED-95-83). 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

Spotts, S. L. (2017). A Comparative Analysis of Missouri Elementary School Arts Curriculums [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

Poniewozik, J. (2017, March 10). Spokesman Spins for Audience of One. New York Times, A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wang, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Wang, 2014; Xie & Black, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Xie & Black, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Gao et al., 2014)

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