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

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

Klarreich, E. (2001) ‘Top Researchers Plan to Snub Fertility Conference’, Nature, 413(6853), p. 241.

A journal article with 2 authors

Modlin, R. L. and P. A. Sieling (2005) ‘Immunology. Now Presenting: Gammadelta T Cells’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5732), pp. 252–253.

A journal article with 3 authors

Polikanov, Y. S., G. M. Blaha and T. A. Steitz (2012) ‘How Hibernation Factors RMF, HPF, and YfiA Turn off Protein Synthesis’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6083), pp. 915–918.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cuchet-Lourenço, D., D. Eletto, C. Wu, V. Plagnol, O. Papapietro, J. Curtis, L. Ceron-Gutierrez, C. M. Bacon, S. Hackett, B. Alsaleem, M. Maes, M. Gaspar, A. Alisaac, E. Goss, E. AlIdrissi, D. Siegmund, H. Wajant, D. Kumararatne, M. S. AlZahrani, P. D. Arkwright, M. Abinun, R. Doffinger and S. Nejentsev (2018) ‘Biallelic RIPK1 Mutations in Humans Cause Severe Immunodeficiency, Arthritis, and Intestinal Inflammation’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 361(6404), pp. 810–813.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Das, S. K. (2010) Mobile Handset Design (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd).

An edited book

Brooks, B. W. and D. B. Huggett (eds) (2012) Human Pharmaceuticals in the Environment: Current and Future Perspectives, Emerging Topics in Ecotoxicology, Principles, Approaches and Perspectives (New York, NY: Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

Stec, M. (2014) ‘Reflective Teaching in an English Primary Classroom’, in Gabryś-Barker, D. and Wojtaszek, A. (eds) Studying Second Language Acquisition from a Qualitative Perspective, Second Language Learning and Teaching (Cham: Springer International Publishing), pp. 61–70.

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 International Development Policy.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016) ‘C-Sections Might Be Altering Human Evolution’, IFLScience (IFLScience), https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/csections-might-be-altering-human-evolution/ (accessed on 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 (1992) High Risk Series: NASA Contract Management, No. HR-93-11 (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

Fine, J. G. (2017) Magical Transformation or Illusion of Grandeur: The Development of Downtown West Palm Beach, 1985-2015, Doctoral dissertation (Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic 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

Kelly, K. and A. Rappeport (2017) ‘Goldman Sachs Veteran Withdraws From Nomination to Treasury’, New York Times, 19 May, p. B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Klarreich, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Klarreich, 2001; Modlin and Sieling, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Modlin and Sieling, 2005)
Three authors: (Polikanov et al., 2012)
4 or more authors: (Cuchet-Lourenço et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Development Policy
Abbreviation	Int. Dev. Pol.
ISSN (print)	1663-9375
ISSN (online)	1663-9391
Scope