How to format your references using the International Journal of Disability, Development and Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Disability, Development and Education. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Greenberg, E. P. (2003). Bacterial communication: tiny teamwork. Nature, 424(6945), 134.
A journal article with 2 authors
Chander, R., & Mervis, J. (2001). The bottom line for U.S. life scientists. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5541), 395.
A journal article with 3 authors
Liljas, A., Ehrenberg, M., & Åqvist, J. (2011). Comment on “The mechanism for activation of GTP hydrolysis on the ribosome.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6038), 37; author reply 37.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Schneider, U., Hackermüller, L., Will, S., Best, T., Bloch, I., Costi, T. A., Helmes, R. W., Rasch, D., & Rosch, A. (2008). Metallic and insulating phases of repulsively interacting fermions in a 3D optical lattice. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5907), 1520–1525.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Ketring, K. L., & Glaze, M. B. (2012). Atlas of Feline Ophthalmology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
An edited book
Hähnel, S. (Ed.). (2009). Inflammatory Diseases of the Brain. Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Hamied, F. A. (2012). English in Multicultural and Multilingual Indonesian Education. In A. Kirkpatrick & R. Sussex (Eds.), English as an International Language in Asia: Implications for Language Education (pp. 63–78). Springer Netherlands.

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 Journal of Disability, Development and Education.

Blog post
Carpineti, A. (2016, August 1). New NASA Mission Will Visit An Asteroid That Has A Slim Chance Of Hitting Earth. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-nasa-mission-will-visit-an-asteroid-that-has-a-slim-chance-of-hitting-earth/

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. (1990). FAA Budget: 1991 Funding Request for Computers and Communications Can Be Reduced (IMTEC-90-89). 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
Gemmer, J. (2012). Shape Selection in the non-Euclidean Model of Elasticity [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
Kelly, K., & Stevenson, A. (2017, May 17). Capital Drama Rattles Wall St. And Stocks Dive. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Greenberg, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Chander & Mervis, 2001; Greenberg, 2003).

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

  • Two authors: (Chander & Mervis, 2001)
  • Three authors: (Liljas et al., 2011)
  • 6 or more authors: (Schneider et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal titleInternational Journal of Disability, Development and Education
AbbreviationIntl. J. Disabil. Dev. Educ.
ISSN (print)1034-912X
ISSN (online)1465-346X
ScopeDevelopmental and Educational Psychology
Education
Health(social science)
Health Professions (miscellaneous)

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