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

Rees, M. J. (2000). Piecing together the biggest puzzle of all. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5498), 1919–1925.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lu, E. T., & Love, S. G. (2005). Gravitational tractor for towing asteroids. Nature, 438(7065), 177–178.

A journal article with 3 authors

Webber, B. L., Le Maitre, D. C., & Kriticos, D. J. (2012). Comment on “Climatic niche shifts are rare among terrestrial plant invaders.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6104), 193; author reply 193.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zomot, E., Bendahan, A., Quick, M., Zhao, Y., Javitch, J. A., & Kanner, B. I. (2007). Mechanism of chloride interaction with neurotransmitter:sodium symporters. Nature, 449(7163), 726–730.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lednicer, D. (2015). Antineoplastic Drugs. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Anderson, D. M. (Ed.). (2014). Leveraging: A Political, Economic and Societal Framework. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Pradhan, J. P., & Das, K. (2016). Determinants of Regional Exports. In K. Das (Ed.), Manufacturing Exports from Indian States: Determinants and Policy Imperatives (pp. 45–68). New Delhi: Springer India.

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

Fang, J. (2014, December 10). Is There a Parallel Universe That’s Moving Backwards in Time? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/there-parallel-universe-thats-moving-backwards-time/. 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. (1979). Improvements Recommended for Better Oversight of the Capitol Page School (No. GGD-79-56). 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

Rodriguez, G. (2013). Undocumented students in higher education: A grant project (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

Shpigel, B. (2016, September 17). Pursuing Gold, Not Platitudes. New York Times, p. SP1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rees 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Lu and Love 2005; Rees 2000).

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

Two authors: (Lu and Love 2005)
Three or more authors: (Zomot 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