How to format your references using the Information Technology for Development citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Information Technology for 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Strogatz, S. H. (2001). Exploring complex networks. Nature, 410(6825), 268–276.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jones, J. H., & Handcock, M. S. (2003). Social networks: Sexual contacts and epidemic thresholds. Nature, 423(6940), 605–606; discussion 606.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hamano, K., Abe, Y., & Genda, H. (2013). Emergence of two types of terrestrial planet on solidification of magma ocean. Nature, 497(7451), 607–610.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Sugiura, R., Kita, A., Shimizu, Y., Shuntoh, H., Sio, S. O., & Kuno, T. (2003). Feedback regulation of MAPK signalling by an RNA-binding protein. Nature, 424(6951), 961–965.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhao, G. (2017). Reuse and Recycling of Lithium-Ion Power Batteries. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Liew, K.-M., Shen, H., See, S., Cai, W., Fan, P., & Horiguchi, S. (Eds.). (2005). Parallel and Distributed Computing: Applications and Technologies: 5th International Conference, PDCAT 2004, Singapore, December 8-10, 2004. Proceedings (Vol. 3320). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, J., Chen, J., & Wang, S. (2011). Dynamic Inventory Management with Cash Flow Constraints. In J. Chen & S. Wang (Eds.), Risk Management of Supply and Cash Flows in Supply Chains (pp. 105–125). 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 Information Technology for Development.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, October 2). How Feasible Are Elon Musk’s Plans To Settle On Mars? A Planetary Scientist Explains. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-feasible-are-elon-musks-plans-to-settle-on-mars-a-planetary-scientist-explains/

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. (1977). Need for a Government-Wide Budget Classification Structure for Federal Research and Development Information, Appendix IV (PAD-77-14A). 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

Yuan, S. (2008). Aberrations of anamorphic optical systems [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Saslow, L. (2006, September 24). Amid Concerns, Counties Move to Limit Taxes. New York Times, 14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Strogatz, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Jones & Handcock, 2003; Strogatz, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Jones & Handcock, 2003)
Three authors: (Hamano et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Sugiura et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Information Technology for Development
Abbreviation	Inf. Technol. Dev.
ISSN (print)	0268-1102
ISSN (online)	1554-0170
Scope	Computer Science Applications Development Public Administration