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

Wiechert, U. H. (2002) ‘Geology. Earth’s Early Atmosphere’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5602), pp. 2341–2342.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rajagopalan, H. and C. Lengauer (2004) ‘Aneuploidy and Cancer’, Nature, 432(7015), pp. 338–341.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zobel, M., R. B. Neder and S. A. J. Kimber (2015) ‘Universal Solvent Restructuring Induced by Colloidal Nanoparticles’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6219), pp. 292–294.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Delneri, D., I. Colson, S. Grammenoudi, I. N. Roberts, E. J. Louis and S. G. Oliver (2003) ‘Engineering Evolution to Study Speciation in Yeasts’, Nature, 422(6927), pp. 68–72.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Todinov, M. T. (2005) Reliability and Risk Models (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd).

An edited book

Winterbottom, A. and F. Tesfaye (eds) (2016) Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World: The Modern Period, Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US).

A chapter in an edited book

Irby, D. J. (2016) ‘Working with Adult Non-Completers to Address the School Dropout Problem’, in Drame, E. R. and Irby, D. J. (eds) Black Participatory Research: Power, Identity, and the Struggle for Justice in Education (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US), pp. 71–85.

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

Andrew, E. (2013) ‘Voyager 1: Boldly Going Where No Man-Made Object Has Gone Before’, 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 (1975) Need for Improvements in the Automated Payroll System of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, No. FGMSD-75-31 (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

Nguyen, T. (2012) Nail Technician Students’ Awareness of Some Health Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Chemicals Used in Nail Salons and Their Understanding of Health Protection, 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

Brady, L. S. (2015) ‘A Cobbler Is No Longer Barefoot’, New York Times, 25 October, p. ST13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wiechert, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Rajagopalan and Lengauer, 2004; Wiechert, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Rajagopalan and Lengauer, 2004)
Three authors: (Zobel et al., 2015)
4 or more authors: (Delneri et al., 2003)

About the journal

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