How to format your references using the Infant Behavior and Development citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Infant Behavior and 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

Baselga, J. (2006). Targeting tyrosine kinases in cancer: the second wave. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5777), 1175–1178.

A journal article with 2 authors

Losos, J. B., & Schluter, D. (2000). Analysis of an evolutionary species-area relationship. Nature, 408(6814), 847–850.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu, F., Bakht, S., & Dean, C. (2012). Cotranscriptional role for Arabidopsis DICER-LIKE 4 in transcription termination. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6076), 1621–1623.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

McQuatters-Gollop, A., Reid, P. C., Edwards, M., Burkill, P. H., Castellani, C., Batten, S., Gieskes, W., Beare, D., Bidigare, R. R., Head, E., Johnson, R., Kahru, M., Koslow, J. A., & Pena, A. (2011). Is there a decline in marine phytoplankton? Nature, 472(7342), E6-7; discussion E8-9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kääriäinen, T., Cameron, D., Kääriäinen, M.-L., & Sherman, A. (2013). Atomic Layer Deposition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Tognoli, A. (Ed.). (2011). Singularities of Analytic Spaces (Vol. 66). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Alsinet, T., Béjar, R., & Godo, L. (2010). A Computational Method for Defeasible Argumentation Based on a Recursive Warrant Semantics. In A. Kuri-Morales & G. R. Simari (Eds.), Advances in Artificial Intelligence – IBERAMIA 2010: 12th Ibero-American Conference on AI, Bahía Blanca, Argentina, November 1-5, 2010. Proceedings (pp. 40–49). 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 Infant Behavior and Development.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, October 15). MH17 Crash Report Establishes The Cause, But Only Criminal Investigation Can Find Those Responsible. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/mh17-crash-report-establishes-cause-only-criminal-investigation-can-find-those/

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. (1990). Space Program: Space Debris a Potential Threat to Space Station and Shuttle (IMTEC-90-18). 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

Tanag, H. B. (2017). Building bridges of hope after loss: A self-directed workbook for foster parents [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

Lambert, K. (2013, December 22). Santa on the Brain. New York Times, SR8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Baselga, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Baselga, 2006; Losos & Schluter, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Losos & Schluter, 2000)
Three or more authors: (McQuatters-Gollop et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Infant Behavior and Development
Abbreviation	Infant Behav. Dev.
ISSN (print)	0163-6383
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology