How to format your references using the Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities. 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

Simon, J. A. (2009). Transcription. Sweet silencing. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5936), 45–46.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shenoy, S. K., & Rockman, H. A. (2011). Cardiovascular biology: heart fails without pump partner. Nature, 477(7366), 546–547.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yeung, L. Y., Ash, J. L., & Young, E. D. (2015). Isotope geochemistry. Biological signatures in clumped isotopes of O₂. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6233), 431–434.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Mikkelsen, T. S., Hanna, J., Zhang, X., Ku, M., Wernig, M., Schorderet, P., et al. (2008). Dissecting direct reprogramming through integrative genomic analysis. Nature, 454(7200), 49–55.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gaisford, S., & Saunders, M. (2012). Essentials of Pharmaceutical Preformulation. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Petsche, H.-J., Keßler, G., Kannenberg, L., & Liskowacka, J. (Eds.). (2009). Hermann Graßmann Roots and Traces: Autographs and Unknown Documents. Basel: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Borruto, F., & Comparetto, C. (2012). The Basic Elements of a Correct Diagnosis: From Cytohistopathology to Screening. In F. Borruto & M. De Ridder (Eds.), HPV and Cervical Cancer: Achievements in Prevention and Future Prospects (pp. 85–111). New York, NY: 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 Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, March 27). New Dwarf Planet Discovered. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (1970). Utilization of the United States Coast Guard High Endurance Cutter Fleet (No. B-114851). 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

Marshall, L. D. (2015). The jeweled net, sacred landscape, and the vision of the heart (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Weaver, M. A. (2015, April 14). Why Do They Go? New York Times, p. MM42.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Simon 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Shenoy and Rockman 2011; Simon 2009).

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

Two authors: (Shenoy and Rockman 2011)
Three or more authors: (Mikkelsen et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities
Abbreviation	J. Dev. Phys. Disabil.
ISSN (print)	1056-263X
ISSN (online)	1573-3580
Scope	Clinical Biochemistry General Health Professions