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

Donnelly, P. (2011). Genome-sequencing anniversary. Making sense of the data. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6020), 1024–1025.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brookes, D., & Etkina, E. (2010). SPORE series winner. Physical phenomena in real time. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6004), 605–606.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cosgaya, J. M., Chan, J. R., & Shooter, E. M. (2002). The neurotrophin receptor p75NTR as a positive modulator of myelination. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5596), 1245–1248.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Jia, J., Tong, C., Wang, B., Luo, L., & Jiang, J. (2004). Hedgehog signalling activity of Smoothened requires phosphorylation by protein kinase A and casein kinase I. Nature, 432(7020), 1045–1050.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Szpankowski, W. (2001). Average Case Analysis of Algorithms on Sequences. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Clark, J. L., & Speth, J. D. (Eds.). (2013). Zooarchaeology and Modern Human Origins: Human Hunting Behavior during the Later Pleistocene. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Lair, C. (2011). Morphismes et Structures Algebriques. In P. Salmon (Ed.), Categories and Commutative Algebra (pp. 73–90). 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 Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2015, January 27). Watch A Whale Shoot A Rainbow Out Of Its Blowhole. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/whale-rainbow/

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). Aviation Security: Implementation of Recommendations Is Under Way, but Completion Will Take Several Years (RCED-98-102). 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

McNamee, L. (2017). Best Practices in Higher Education Faculty Motivation [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Crow, K. (2002, September 1). Big Trucks Take More Detours, and Residents Near Holland Tunnel Just Smile. New York Times, 145.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Donnelly, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Brookes & Etkina, 2010; Donnelly, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Brookes & Etkina, 2010)
Three authors: (Cosgaya et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Jia et al., 2004)

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