How to format your references using the Innovation and Development citation style

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

Zhang, Chun-Ting. 2013. “A Novel Triangle Mapping Technique to Study the H-Index Based Citation Distribution.” Scientific Reports 3 (January): 1023.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ohlstein, Benjamin, and Allan Spradling. 2007. “Multipotent Drosophila Intestinal Stem Cells Specify Daughter Cell Fates by Differential Notch Signaling.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 315 (5814): 988–992.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gancarz-Kausch, Amy M., Danielle N. Adank, and David M. Dietz. 2014. “Prolonged Withdrawal Following Cocaine Self-Administration Increases Resistance to Punishment in a Cocaine Binge.” Scientific Reports 4 (November): 6876.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Yakata, Satoshi, Terumitsu Tanaka, Kohei Kiseki, Kimihide Matsuyama, and Takashi Kimura. 2013. “Wide Range Tuning of Resonant Frequency for a Vortex Core in a Regular Triangle Magnet.” Scientific Reports 3 (December): 3567.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Guochao, Qian, Tang Shuyu, Zhao Min, and Jing Chun. 2014. The Environment and Landscape in Motorway Design. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Duca, Gheorghe, ed. 2014. Management of Water Quality in Moldova. Vol. 69. Water Science and Technology Library. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Cui, Xiaofeng. 2015. “Three-Dimensional Bioprinting in Regenerative Medicine.” In Bioprinting in Regenerative Medicine, edited by Kursad Turksen, 109–122. Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Innovation and Development.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. 2016. “Your Map Of The World Is Wrong. Here’s How Big Everything Actually Is.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/your-map-of-the-world-is-wrong/.

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. 1973. Opportunities for Improvement in the Administration of Technical Training Activities. B-175773. Washington, DC: 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

Cacciola, Joseph A. 2010. “A Quantitative Study on Retaining Leadership Talent within a Naval Aviation Squadron.” Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Kishkovsky, Sophia. 2006. “Hermitage Is Reeling From Loss Of Artworks.” New York Times, August 2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zhang 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Zhang 2013; Ohlstein and Spradling 2007).

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

Two authors: (Ohlstein and Spradling 2007)
Three authors: (Gancarz-Kausch, Adank, and Dietz 2014)
4 or more authors: (Yakata et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Innovation and Development
Abbreviation	Innov. Dev.
ISSN (print)	2157-930X
ISSN (online)	2157-9318
Scope	Development Education Geography, Planning and Development Sociology and Political Science Cultural Studies Political Science and International Relations