How to format your references using the Development Policy Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Development Policy Review. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Spergel, D. N. (2015) ‘The dark side of cosmology: dark matter and dark energy’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 347(6226): 1100–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yau, S. T. and Vekilov, P. G. (2000) ‘Quasi-planar nucleus structure in apoferritin crystallization’, Nature 406(6795): 494–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yozwiak, N. L.; Schaffner, S. F. and Sabeti, P. C. (2015) ‘Data sharing: Make outbreak research open access’, Nature 518(7540): 477–9.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kowalewski, M.; Hoffmeister, A. P.; Baumiller, T. K. and Bambach, R. K. (2005) ‘Secondary evolutionary escalation between brachiopods and enemies of other prey’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 308(5729): 1774–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Huang, Q.; Jing, S.; Yi, J. and Zhen, W. (2014) Innovative Testing and Measurement Solutions for Smart Grid. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons, Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Ferretti, M. (2015) The Creation of Local Innovation Systems in Emerging Countries: The Role of Governments, Firms and Universities. Edited by A. Parmentola. Cham: Springer International Publishing (SpringerBriefs in Regional Science).

A chapter in an edited book

Wu, Y. and Dai, X. (2014) ‘China’s Not-in-My-Backyard Protest in the Process of Urbanization’, in Z. Cheng, M. Wang, and J. Chen (eds) Urban China in the New Era: Market Reforms, Current State, and the Road Forward. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Development Policy Review.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015) This Is What the Brain of a Stroke Survivor Looks Like, IFLScience. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/here-s-what-brain-stroke-survivor-looks/ (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 (2009) Commuter Rail: Many Factors Influence Liability and Indemnity Provisions, and Options Exist to Facilitate Negotiations. GAO-09-282. 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

Snyder, Q. Z. (2010) From Anarchy to Confederacy: A Theory of International Politics. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Casselman, B. (2017) ‘The Start-Up Slump Is a Drag on the Economy. Maybe Big Business Is to Blame’, New York Times, 20 September, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Spergel, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Yau and Vekilov, 2000; Spergel, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Yau and Vekilov, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Kowalewski et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Development Policy Review
Abbreviation	Dev. Policy Rev.
ISSN (print)	0950-6764
ISSN (online)	1467-7679
Scope	Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Development Geography, Planning and Development