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

Joyce, G. F. (2007). Structural biology. A glimpse of biology’s first enzyme. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5818), 1507–1508.

A journal article with 2 authors

Benfey, P. N., & Mitchell-Olds, T. (2008). From genotype to phenotype: systems biology meets natural variation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5875), 495–497.

A journal article with 3 authors

Meng, J., Wang, Y., & Li, C. (2011). Transitional mammalian middle ear from a new Cretaceous Jehol eutriconodont. Nature, 472(7342), 181–185.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yao, Q., Lu, Z.-H., Zhang, Z., Chen, X., & Lan, Y. (2014). One-pot synthesis of core-shell Cu@SiO2 nanospheres and their catalysis for hydrolytic dehydrogenation of ammonia borane and hydrazine borane. Scientific Reports, 4, 7597.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simon, L., & Ospina, J. (2015). Closed-Form Solutions for Drug Transport through Controlled-Release Devices in Two and Three Dimensions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kembayev, Z. (Ed.). (2009). Legal Aspects of the Regional Integration Processes in the Post-Soviet Area. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chaudhuri, S., & Mukhopadhyay, U. (2014). FDI, SEZ and Agriculture. In U. Mukhopadhyay (Ed.), Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries: A Theoretical Evaluation (pp. 79–100). Springer India.

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

Fang, J. (2015, May 28). How Beefsteak Tomatoes Became So Supersized. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2004). Federal Family Education Loan Program: Statutory and Regulatory Changes Could Avert Billions in Unnecessary Federal Subsidy Payments (GAO-04-1070). 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

Kay, V. L. (2009). A single mother and child welfare: A personal narrative [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

Wagner, J. (2017, April 15). Asked Yet Again for Multiple Innings, Mets’ Bullpen Lets a Game Slip Away. New York Times, D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Joyce, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Benfey & Mitchell-Olds, 2008; Joyce, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Benfey & Mitchell-Olds, 2008)
Three authors: (Meng et al., 2011)
6 or more authors: (Yao et al., 2014)

About the journal

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