How to format your references using the Research in Developmental Disabilities citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Research in Developmental 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	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

Joye, S. B. (2015). MARINE SCIENCE. Deepwater Horizon, 5 years on. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6248), 592–593.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rignot, E., & Thomas, R. H. (2002). Mass balance of polar ice sheets. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5586), 1502–1506.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kilner, R. M., Madden, J. R., & Hauber, M. E. (2004). Brood parasitic cowbird nestlings use host young to procure resources. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5685), 877–879.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Su, T., Stanley, G., Sinha, R., D’Amato, G., Das, S., Rhee, S., Chang, A. H., Poduri, A., Raftrey, B., Dinh, T. T., Roper, W. A., Li, G., Quinn, K. E., Caron, K. M., Wu, S., Miquerol, L., Butcher, E. C., Weissman, I., Quake, S., & Red-Horse, K. (2018). Single-cell analysis of early progenitor cells that build coronary arteries. Nature, 559(7714), 356–362.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kramer-Moore, D., & Moore, M. (2012). Destructive Myths in Family Therapy. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Demchenko, A. P. (Ed.). (2011). Advanced Fluorescence Reporters in Chemistry and Biology III: Applications in Sensing and Imaging (Vol. 113). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Nony, L., Bocquet, F., Foster, A. S., & Loppacher, C. (2012). Contribution of the Numerical Approach to Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy on the Atomic-Scale. In S. Sadewasser & T. Glatzel (Eds.), Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy: Measuring and Compensating Electrostatic Forces (pp. 69–97). 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 Research in Developmental Disabilities.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2017, May 25). NASA’s Mission To Metal Asteroid Psyche Will Now Arrive Four Years Earlier. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (1980). Survey of the Readiness of Minuteman Missiles (LCD-80-102). 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

Salinsky, J. L. (2012). Local disaster preparedness for the disabled population: Are we ready? [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

MacFARQUHAR, N., & Kishkovsky, S. (2015, March 30). Russian Theater Director Fired for Offending Christians. New York Times, A3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Joye, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Joye, 2015; Rignot & Thomas, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Rignot & Thomas, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Su et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Research in Developmental Disabilities
Abbreviation	Res. Dev. Disabil.
ISSN (print)	0891-4222
Scope	Clinical Psychology Developmental and Educational Psychology