How to format your references using the World Development Perspectives citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for World Development Perspectives. 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

Heglund, N. C. (2004). Physiology. Running a-fowl of the law. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5654), 47–48.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kemp, C., & Regier, T. (2012). Kinship categories across languages reflect general communicative principles. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6084), 1049–1054.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moon-van der Staay, S. Y., De Wachter, R., & Vaulot, D. (2001). Oceanic 18S rDNA sequences from picoplankton reveal unsuspected eukaryotic diversity. Nature, 409(6820), 607–610.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Fu, Z., Berhane, F., Fite, A., Seyoum, B., Abou-Samra, A. B., & Zhang, R. (2014). Elevated circulating lipasin/betatrophin in human type 2 diabetes and obesity. Scientific Reports, 4, 5013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saguet, P. (2013). Numerical Analysis in Electromagnetics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chakraborty, M. K., Skowron, A., Maiti, M., & Kar, S. (Eds.). (2015). Facets of Uncertainties and Applications: ICFUA, Kolkata, India, December 2013 (Vol. 125). Springer India.

A chapter in an edited book

Skogestad, S., & Grimholt, C. (2012). The SIMC Method for Smooth PID Controller Tuning. In R. Vilanova & A. Visioli (Eds.), PID Control in the Third Millennium: Lessons Learned and New Approaches (pp. 147–175). 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 World Development Perspectives.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2016, October 3). Watch Live As Blue Origin Purposefully Destroys Its Historic Rocket Tomorrow. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1982). Analysis of NASA’s Fiscal Year 1983 Budget Request for Research and Development To Determine the Amount That Supports DOD’s Programs (MASAD-82-33). 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

Watts, K. S. (2008). The Effectiveness of a Social Story Intervention in Decreasing Disruptive Behavior in Autistic Children [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State 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

Hodgman, J. (2017, April 14). Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times, MM22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Heglund, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Heglund, 2004; Kemp & Regier, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Kemp & Regier, 2012)
Three authors: (Moon-van der Staay et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Fu et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	World Development Perspectives
Abbreviation	World Dev. Perspect.
ISSN (print)	2452-2929
Scope