How to format your references using the International Development Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Development Policy. 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

Greaves, J. S. (2005) ‘Disks around Stars and the Growth of Planetary Systems’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5706), pp. 68–71.

A journal article with 2 authors

O’Connor, P. M. and L. P. A. M. Claessens (2005) ‘Basic Avian Pulmonary Design and Flow-through Ventilation in Non-Avian Theropod Dinosaurs’, Nature, 436(7048), pp. 253–256.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mathew-Fenn, R. S., R. Das and P. A. B. Harbury (2008) ‘Remeasuring the Double Helix’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5900), pp. 446–449.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hiratsuka, T., K. Furihata, J. Ishikawa, H. Yamashita, N. Itoh, H. Seto and T. Dairi (2008) ‘An Alternative Menaquinone Biosynthetic Pathway Operating in Microorganisms’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5896), pp. 1670–1673.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maudlin, T. (2011) Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity (Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell).

An edited book

Liu, Y. (2013) Chaos in Attitude Dynamics of Spacecraft (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

Bouzidane, A. and M. Thomas (2012) ‘Non Linear Transient Response of a Flexible Shaft Controlled by Electro-Rheological Hydrostatic Squeeze Film Dampers’, in Fakhfakh, T., Bartelmus, W., Chaari, F., Zimroz, R., and Haddar, M. (eds) Condition Monitoring of Machinery in Non-Stationary Operations: Proceedings of the Second International Conference ‘Condition Monitoring of Machinery in Non-Stationnary Operations’ CMMNO’2012 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), pp. 33–40.

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 International Development Policy.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016) ‘First-Ever Footage Of A Great White Shark Napping Caught On Camera’, IFLScience (IFLScience), https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/first-ever-footage-of-a-great-white-shark-napping-caught-on-camera/ (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 (1999) Air Traffic Control: FAA’s Modernization Investment Management Approach Could Be Strengthened, No. RCED/AIMD-99-88 (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

Montano, M. (2010) Supporting Juvenile Offenders Reentering the Community: A Grant Proposal Project, Doctoral dissertation (Long Beach, CA: 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

Pilon, M. (2012) ‘Olympic Spot Conceded Without Runoff’, New York Times, 2 July, p. B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Greaves, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Greaves, 2005; O’Connor and Claessens, 2005).

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

Two authors: (O’Connor and Claessens, 2005)
Three authors: (Mathew-Fenn et al., 2008)
4 or more authors: (Hiratsuka et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Development Policy
Abbreviation	Int. Dev. Pol.
ISSN (print)	1663-9375
ISSN (online)	1663-9391
Scope