How to format your references using the Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice. 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

Rader, C. (2015). Chemical biology: How to minimalize antibodies. Nature, 518(7537), 38–39.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kiers, E. T., & West, S. A. (2015). Evolutionary biology. Evolving new organisms via symbiosis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6233), 392–394.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lavine, M., Frisk, M., & Pennisi, E. (2012). Biomaterials. Introduction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6109), 899.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Engel, G. S., Calhoun, T. R., Read, E. L., Ahn, T.-K., Mancal, T., Cheng, Y.-C., Blankenship, R. E., & Fleming, G. R. (2007). Evidence for wavelike energy transfer through quantum coherence in photosynthetic systems. Nature, 446(7137), 782–786.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schumacher, L. (2011). Divine Illumination. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Müller, T. (Ed.). (2014). Nuel Belnap on Indeterminism and Free Action (Vol. 2). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Ngwenya, E. (2014). Global Evidence of Age-Structured Differences in MDG Awareness Among Users of Personal Computers. In H. Kaur & X. Tao (Eds.), ICTs and the Millennium Development Goals: A United Nations Perspective (pp. 55–66). 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 Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, November 13). GM Crops And The Developing World: Opposing Sides Miss The Bigger Picture. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/gm-crops-and-developing-world-opposing-sides-miss-bigger-picture/

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. (2009). Commercial Space Transportation: Development of the Commercial Space Launch Industry Presents Safety Oversight Challenges for FAA and Raises Issues Affecting Federal Roles (GAO-10-286T). 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

Gemmer, J. (2012). Shape Selection in the non-Euclidean Model of Elasticity [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Wagner, J. (2016, October 15). Dodgers’ Rookie Manager Learns, and Acts, Quickly. New York Times, D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rader, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Kiers & West, 2015; Rader, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Kiers & West, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Engel et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice
Abbreviation	Group Dyn.
ISSN (print)	1089-2699
ISSN (online)	1930-7802
Scope	Applied Psychology Social Psychology