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

Peplow, M. (2013). Catalysis: The accelerator. Nature, 495(7440), S10-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wasserman, S. A., & DiNardo, S. (2001). Development. Staying a boy forever. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5551), 2495–2497.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stevens, R. C., Yokoyama, S., & Wilson, I. A. (2001). Global efforts in structural genomics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5540), 89–92.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Abers, G. A., Ferris, A., Craig, M., Davies, H., Lerner-Lam, A. L., Mutter, J. C., & Taylor, B. (2002). Mantle compensation of active metamorphic core complexes at Woodlark rift in Papua New Guinea. Nature, 418(6900), 862–865.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Colloms, M., & Darlington, P. (2005). High Performance Loudspeakers. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,.

An edited book

Sheng, Q. Z., & Kjeldskov, J. (Eds.). (2013). Current Trends in Web Engineering: ICWE 2013 International Workshops ComposableWeb, QWE, MDWE, DMSSW, EMotions, CSE, SSN, and PhD Symposium, Aalborg, Denmark, July 8-12, 2013. Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 8295). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Khoury, R., & Harder, D. W. (2016). Taylor Series. In D. W. Harder (Ed.), Numerical Methods and Modelling for Engineering (pp. 67–75). 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 Research in Developmental Disabilities.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014, March 28). Croatian Court Upholds Vaccine Mandate. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/croatian-court-upholds-vaccine-mandate/

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). Information on the Labor Department’s Skill Training Improvement Program (HRD-79-19). 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

Mullis, J. (2009). The impact of the media on public opinion of the police [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2015, September 3). Calstrs Eyes a Strategy to Cut Risk. New York Times, B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Peplow, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Peplow, 2013; Wasserman & DiNardo, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Wasserman & DiNardo, 2001)
Three authors: (Stevens et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Abers et al., 2002)

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