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

Roebroeks, W. (2014). Archaeology: Art on the move. Nature, 514(7521), 170–171.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kelliher, T., & Walbot, V. (2012). Hypoxia triggers meiotic fate acquisition in maize. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6092), 345–348.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wookey, J., Kendall, J.-M., & Barruol, G. (2002). Mid-mantle deformation inferred from seismic anisotropy. Nature, 415(6873), 777–780.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Becker, D., Selbach, M., Rollenhagen, C., Ballmaier, M., Meyer, T. F., Mann, M., & Bumann, D. (2006). Robust Salmonella metabolism limits possibilities for new antimicrobials. Nature, 440(7082), 303–307.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fisher, R. B., Breckon, T. P., Dawson-Howe, K., Fitzgibbon, A., Robertson, C., Trucco, E., & Williams, C. K. I. (2016). Dictionary of Computer Vision and Image Processing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ciufolini, I., & Matzner, R. A. (Eds.). (2010). General Relativity and John Archibald Wheeler (Vol. 367). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

De Padova, M. P., & Tosti, A. (2012). Pyruvic Acid. In A. Tosti, P. E. Grimes, & M. P. De Padova (Eds.), Color Atlas of Chemical Peels (pp. 25–32). 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

Hale, T. (2016, October 6). The Color Of This Handbag Has Divided The Internet, Once Again. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/the-color-of-this-handbag-has-divided-the-internet-once-again/

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. (1992). Telecommunications: Concerns About Competition in the Cellular Telephone Service Industry (RCED-92-220). 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

Pan, Y. (2010). Long-Term Effects of Higher-Quality Early Childhood Education for At-Risk Children on Their Later Development and Resilience [Doctoral dissertation]. University of North Carolina.

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

Corkery, M. (2017, September 15). Walmart Sticks With Arkansas Headquarters as Amazon Plays the Field. New York Times, B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Roebroeks, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Kelliher & Walbot, 2012; Roebroeks, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Kelliher & Walbot, 2012)
Three authors: (Wookey et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Becker et al., 2006)

About the journal

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