How to format your references using the Research in Developmental Disabilities citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Research in Developmental 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	Download the output style file
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

Kraus, V. B. (2014). Osteoarthritis: The zinc link. Nature, 507(7493), 441–442.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weir, J. T., & Schluter, D. (2007). The latitudinal gradient in recent speciation and extinction rates of birds and mammals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5818), 1574–1576.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ando, R., Mizuno, H., & Miyawaki, A. (2004). Regulated fast nucleocytoplasmic shuttling observed by reversible protein highlighting. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5700), 1370–1373.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yasuda, R., Noji, H., Yoshida, M., Kinosita, K., Jr, & Itoh, H. (2001). Resolution of distinct rotational substeps by submillisecond kinetic analysis of F1-ATPase. Nature, 410(6831), 898–904.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Angueira, P., & Romo, J. A. (2012). Microwave Line of Sight Link Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rutkowski, L., Korytkowski, M., Scherer, R., Tadeusiewicz, R., Zadeh, L. A., & Zurada, J. M. (Eds.). (2012). Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing: 11th International Conference, ICAISC 2012, Zakopane, Poland, April 29-May 3, 2012, Proceedings, Part I (Vol. 7267). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kaya, Y., Jocic, S., & Miladinovic, D. (2012). Sunflower. In S. K. Gupta (Ed.), Technological Innovations in Major World Oil Crops, Volume 1: Breeding (pp. 85–129). Springer.

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 Research in Developmental Disabilities.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, August 7). New Test Detects Fatal Brain Disease Earlier And More Accurately Than Previous Methods. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-test-detects-fatal-brain-disease-earlier-and-more-accurately-previous/

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. (1991). Student Financial Aid: Education Can Do More to Screen Schools Before Students Receive Aid (HRD-91-145). 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

Klepper, E. M. (2017). Andragogy and Workplace Relationships: A Mixed-Methods Study Exploring Employees’ Perceptions of Their Relationships with Their Supervisors [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood University.

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

Robles, F. (2016, June 24). Police Officers Are Haunted by Grisly Scene Inside Orlando Club. New York Times, A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kraus, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Kraus, 2014; Weir & Schluter, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Weir & Schluter, 2007)
Three authors: (Ando et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Yasuda et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Research in Developmental Disabilities
Abbreviation	Res. Dev. Disabil.
ISSN (print)	0891-4222
Scope	Clinical Psychology Developmental and Educational Psychology