How to format your references using the Human Development citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Human Development. 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	Download the output style file
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

Wadman, M. (2007). The pain game. Nature, 448(7152), 400–401.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen, S.-W., & Liu, R.-B. (2014). Faraday rotation echo spectroscopy and detection of quantum fluctuations. Scientific Reports, 4, 4695.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, J., Hannon, G. J., & Beach, D. H. (2000). Risky immortalization by telomerase. Nature, 405(6788), 755–756.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Li, L., Checkelsky, J. G., Hor, Y. S., Uher, C., Hebard, A. F., Cava, R. J., & Ong, N. P. (2008). Phase transitions of Dirac electrons in bismuth. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5888), 547–550.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dixon, C. S. (2010). Protestants. wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Jensen, K., Aalst, W. M. P. van der, Balbo, G., Koutny, M., & Wolf, K. (Eds.). (2013). Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency VII (Vol. 7480). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Golob, A. L., & Lee, T. (2015). Perioperative Medication Management. In M. B. Jackson, S. Mookherjee, & N. P. Hamlin (Eds.), The Perioperative Medicine Consult Handbook (pp. 17–25). Springer International Publishing.

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 Human Development.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, July 27). Pulsating White Dwarf Whips Its Companion Star With Beam Of Particles. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/pulsating-white-dwarf-whips-its-companion-star-with-beam-of-particles/

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. (2014). Space Acquisitions: Acquisition Management Continues to Improve but Challenges Persist for Current and Future Programs (GAO-14-382T). 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

Yao, D. (2009). In situ activity of NAC11-7 roseobacters in coastal waters off the Chesapeake Bay based on ftsZ expression [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Vecsey, G. (2010, January 15). A Modest Proposal Says Colleges Should Educate. New York Times, B14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wadman, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Chen & Liu, 2014; Wadman, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Chen & Liu, 2014)
Three authors: (Wang et al., 2000)
6 or more authors: (Li et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Human Development
Abbreviation	Hum. Dev.
ISSN (print)	0018-716X
ISSN (online)	1423-0054
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology