How to format your references using the International Journal of Disability, Development and Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Disability, Development and Education. 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

Lamb, S. (2001). Walking with producers. Nature, 412(6844), 277.

A journal article with 2 authors

Su, C.-Y., & Carlson, J. R. (2013). Neuroscience. Circuit logic of avoidance and attraction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6138), 1295–1297.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gillespie, A. R., Montgomery, D. R., & Mushkin, A. (2005). Planetary science: are there active glaciers on Mars? Nature, 438(7069), E9-10; discussion E10.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Lin, Y., Yan, Q., Kong, C., & Chen, L. (2013). Polyethyleneimine incorporated metal-organic frameworks adsorbent for highly selective CO2 capture. Scientific Reports, 3, 1859.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sadati, N., Dumont, G. A., Hamed, K. A., & Gruver, W. A. (2012). Hybrid Control and Motion Planning of Dynamical Legged Locomotion. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

El-Salhy, M. (2015). Understanding and Controlling the Irritable Bowel (J. G. Hatlebakk & T. Hausken, Eds.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Isakson, H. R., & Sproles, S. (2008). A Brief History of Native American Land Ownership. In G. Small, R. M. Malmgren, & R. A. Simons (Eds.), Indigenous Peoples and Real Estate Valuation (pp. 63–75). Springer US.

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 Journal of Disability, Development and Education.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, May 8). Carbon Dioxide Levels Hit Record Of 400ppm. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/carbon-dioxide-levels-hit-new-milestone/

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. (2013). Indian Affairs: Better Management and Accountability Needed to Improve Indian Education (GAO-13-774). 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

Llerena, K. (2010). The social behaviors and emotional characteristics of individuals elevated on social anhedonia [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

Vecsey, G. (2010, November 22). Less Than Two Years In, Sanchez Era Has Arrived. New York Times, D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lamb, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Lamb, 2001; Su & Carlson, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Su & Carlson, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Lin et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Disability, Development and Education
Abbreviation	Intl. J. Disabil. Dev. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1034-912X
ISSN (online)	1465-346X
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Education Health(social science) Health Professions (miscellaneous)