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

Szpiro, G. (2013). Economics: Value judgements. Nature, 500(7464), 521–523.

A journal article with 2 authors

Skotheim, J. M., & Mahadevan, L. (2005). Physical limits and design principles for plant and fungal movements. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5726), 1308–1310.

A journal article with 3 authors

Carslaw, K. S., Harrison, R. G., & Kirkby, J. (2002). Cosmic rays, clouds, and climate. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5599), 1732–1737.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Edamatsu, K., Oohata, G., Shimizu, R., & Itoh, T. (2004). Generation of ultraviolet entangled photons in a semiconductor. Nature, 431(7005), 167–170.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shuttleworth, W. J. (2012). Terrestrial Hydrometeorology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Pogorzelski, W. A. (2008). Completeness Theory for Propositional Logics. (P. Wojtylak, Ed.). Basel: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Wood, R. T. (2014). U.S. Department of Energy Instrumentation and Controls Technology Research for Advanced Small Modular Reactors. In H. Yoshikawa & Z. Zhang (Eds.), Progress of Nuclear Safety for Symbiosis and Sustainability: Advanced Digital Instrumentation, Control and Information Systems for Nuclear Power Plants (pp. 33–39). Tokyo: Springer Japan.

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, D. (2015, September 16). Awesome Timelapse Shows You The Life Cycle Of A Butterfly. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (1997). Department of Transportation: Flexible Funding Within Federal Highway Programs (No. RCED-97-233R). 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

McLean, M. R. (2010). Analyzing the relationship of geographic mobility and institutional prestige to career advancement of women in academic medicine pursuing midcareer-, senior-, or executive-level administrative positions: Implications for career advancement strategies (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Marx, L. (2011, March 27). Lori McCoy and Edwin Rossman Jr. New York Times, p. ST15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Szpiro 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Skotheim and Mahadevan 2005; Szpiro 2013).

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

Two authors: (Skotheim and Mahadevan 2005)
Three or more authors: (Edamatsu et al. 2004)

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