How to format your references using the Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities citation style

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

Laming, J. M. (2014). Astrophysics: Lopsided stellar death. Nature, 506(7488), 298–299.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mesmin, B., & Antonny, B. (2013). Cell biology. Vitamin currency in a lipid exchange market. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6136), 1051–1052.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kuhlen, M., Madau, P., & Silk, J. (2009). Exploring dark matter with Milky Way substructure. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5943), 970–973.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Donald, P. F., Sanderson, F. J., Burfield, I. J., Bierman, S. M., Gregory, R. D., & Waliczky, Z. (2007). International conservation policy delivers benefits for birds in Europe. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5839), 810–813.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ferguson, N., Schneier, B., & Kohno, T. (2015). Cryptography Engineering. Indianapolis, Indiana: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Weeks, J. R., Hill, A. G., & Stoler, J. (Eds.). (2013). Spatial Inequalities: Health, Poverty, and Place in Accra, Ghana (Vol. 110). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Fells, R., & Prowse, P. (2016). Negotiations in the Workplace: Overcoming the Problem of Asymmetry. In P. Elgoibar, M. Euwema, & L. Munduate (Eds.), Building Trust and Constructive Conflict Management in Organizations (pp. 75–92). 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 Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 24). Passage Of Time: Why People With Dementia Switch Back To The Past. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/passage-time-why-people-dementia-switch-back-past/. Accessed 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. (2006). U.S. Aerospace Industry: Progress in Implementing Aerospace Commission Recommendations, and Remaining Challenges (No. GAO-06-920). 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

Hasan, S. N. (2012). Design and optimization of 2012 Formula SAE chassis with finite element analysis for CSULB (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Vecsey, G. (2010, June 26). When Loss Means Disappointment, Not Disaster. New York Times, p. D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Laming 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Laming 2014; Mesmin and Antonny 2013).

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

Two authors: (Mesmin and Antonny 2013)
Three or more authors: (Donald et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities
Abbreviation	J. Dev. Phys. Disabil.
ISSN (print)	1056-263X
ISSN (online)	1573-3580
Scope	Clinical Biochemistry General Health Professions