How to format your references using the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. 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

Montesi, L. G. J. (2013). Planetary science. Solving the mascon mystery. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6140), 1535–1536.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pryke, S. R., & Griffith, S. C. (2009). Genetic incompatibility drives sex allocation and maternal investment in a polymorphic finch. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5921), 1605–1607.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sadqi, M., Fushman, D., & Muñoz, V. (2006). Atom-by-atom analysis of global downhill protein folding. Nature, 442(7100), 317–321.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Iwata, N., Sekiguchi, M., Hattori, Y., Takahashi, A., Asai, M., Ji, B., Higuchi, M., Staufenbiel, M., Muramatsu, S.-I., & Saido, T. C. (2013). Global brain delivery of neprilysin gene by intravascular administration of AAV vector in mice. Scientific Reports, 3, 1472.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Aronson, D. R. (2006). Evidence-Based Technical Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Krawczyk, H. (Ed.). (2014). Public-Key Cryptography – PKC 2014: 17th International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public-Key Cryptography, Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 26-28, 2014. Proceedings (Vol. 8383). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Durband, D. B., & Gustafson, A. W. (2012). Obtaining Financial Education Program Support. In D. B. Durband & S. L. Britt (Eds.), Student Financial Literacy: Campus-Based Program Development (pp. 57–64). Springer US.

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 Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2015, October 22). Check Out These Amazing Artworks Created With Microbes In A Petri Dish. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/amazing-art-created-microbes-petri-dish/

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. (1979). National Bureau of Standards Needs Better Management of Its Computer Resources To Improve Program Effectiveness (CED-79-39). 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

Harper, T. (2010). Going public, staying private, and everything in between [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

Brantley, B. (2017, September 23). Hear a Song, Pick a Side. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Montesi, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Montesi, 2013; Pryke & Griffith, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Pryke & Griffith, 2009)
Three authors: (Sadqi et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Iwata et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Appl. Dev. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0193-3973
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology