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

Morell, V. (2014). When the bat sings. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6190), 1334–1337.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smith, M. R., & Caron, J.-B. (2010). Primitive soft-bodied cephalopods from the Cambrian. Nature, 465(7297), 469–472.

A journal article with 3 authors

Barnett, T. P., Adam, J. C., & Lettenmaier, D. P. (2005). Potential impacts of a warming climate on water availability in snow-dominated regions. Nature, 438(7066), 303–309.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Ammal, S. C., Yamataka, H., Aida, M., & Dupuis, M. (2003). Dynamics-driven reaction pathway in an intramolecular rearrangement. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5612), 1555–1557.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Batten, L. M. (2013). Public Key Cryptography. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chiumello, D. (Ed.). (2016). Topical Issues in Anesthesia and Intensive Care. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Caragiannis, I., Filos-Ratsikas, A., & Procaccia, A. D. (2011). An Improved 2-Agent Kidney Exchange Mechanism. In N. Chen, E. Elkind, & E. Koutsoupias (Eds.), Internet and Network Economics: 7th International Workshop, WINE 2011, Singapore, December 11-14, 2011. Proceedings (pp. 37–48). 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 Human Development.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, January 19). Unbelievable X-Rays Show Puppy Who Swallowed 8-Inch Kitchen Knife. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/unbelievable-xrays-show-puppy-who-swallowed-8inch-kitchen-knife/

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. (1981). Regulating Domestic Telecommunications Common Carriers (116445). 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

Young, W. B. (2017). First-Generation Undergraduate Researchers: Engaging and Validating Cultural Wealth-Based Self-Authors [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Baker, A. L., Santora, M., & Palmer, E. (2015, October 16). Bronx Baby Thrown Out Window Dies; Mother Is Charged With Murder. New York Times, A26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Morell, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Morell, 2014; Smith & Caron, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Smith & Caron, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Ammal et al., 2003)

About the journal

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