How to format your references using the Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice. 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 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

Maxmen, A. (2015). Three technologies that changed genetics. Nature, 528(7580), S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Des Marais, D. L., & Rausher, M. D. (2008). Escape from adaptive conflict after duplication in an anthocyanin pathway gene. Nature, 454(7205), 762–765.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aurelio, O., Hall, D. H., & Hobert, O. (2002). Immunoglobulin-domain proteins required for maintenance of ventral nerve cord organization. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5555), 686–690.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Clutton-Brock, T. H., Coulson, T. N., Milner-Gulland, E. J., Thomson, D., & Armstrong, H. M. (2002). Sex differences in emigration and mortality affect optimal management of deer populations. Nature, 415(6872), 633–637.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lloret, J., Shulman, G., & Love, R. M. (2013). Condition and Health Indicators of Exploited Marine Fishes. John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Fine, B. (2007). Number Theory: An Introduction via the Distribution of Primes (G. Rosenberger, Ed.). Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Bastenhof, A. (2010). Extraction in the Lambek-Grishin Calculus. In T. Icard & R. Muskens (Eds.), Interfaces: Explorations in Logic, Language and Computation: ESSLLI 2008 and ESSLLI 2009 Student Sessions. Selected Papers (pp. 57–71). 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 Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, March 7). Genetically Modified Immune Cells Protect Against HIV. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/genetically-modified-immune-cells-protect-against-hiv/

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. (2000). Federal Communications Commission: Assessment and Collection of Regulatory Fees for Fiscal Year 2000 (OGC-00-50). 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

Chatterji, S. (2016). A novel agent-based dynamic load balancing model for cloud networks [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

Zajac, M. K. (2012, December 30). Cara Shepley and Genshi Ezawa. New York Times, ST9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Maxmen, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Des Marais & Rausher, 2008; Maxmen, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Des Marais & Rausher, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Clutton-Brock et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice
Abbreviation	Group Dyn.
ISSN (print)	1089-2699
ISSN (online)	1930-7802
Scope	Applied Psychology Social Psychology