There are no current calls for special sections of Child Development. 

Recent Calls (downloadable PDFs)

• Meta-Analysis and Child Development
  Editors: Marinus van IJzendoorn and Glenn I. Roisman
   
• Inflection Points in Brain Development: Evidence for Plasticity during Childhood and Adolescence
  Editors: Amanda Guyer, Koraly Perez-Edgar and Eveline Crone
   
• Origins of Children's Self-Views
  Editors: Eddie Brummelman and Sander Thomaes
   
• Comtemporary Mobile Technology and Child and Adolescent Development
  Editors: Zheng Yan and Lennart Hardell
   

Previously Published Special Issues/Sections

• Bringing Developmental Science into the World
  Editors: Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Rachel Grob, and Mark Schlesinger
  Published: 88:4 July/August 2017

• Positive Youth Development in Diverse and Global Contexts
  Editors: Emilie P. Smith, Anne C. Petersen, and Patrick Leman
  Published: 88:4 July/August 2017

• Context and Ethnic/Racial Identity
  Editors: Eleanor Seaton, Stephen Quintana, Maykel Verkuyten and Gilbert Gee
  Published: 88:3 May/June 2017

• Developmental Research and Translational Science: Evidence-based Intervention for At-risk Youth and Families
  Editors: Suniya Luthar and Nancy Eisenberg
  Published: 88:2 March/April 2017

• Severe Youth Violence: Developmental Perspectives
  Editors: Tina Malti and Margit Averdijk
  Published: 88:1 January/February 2017

• The Motivational Foundations of Prosocial Behavior: A Developmental Perspective
  Editors: Maayan Davidov, Ariel Knafo, Amrisha Vaish and Paul Hastings
  Published: 87:6 November/December 2016

• Discrimination, Social Exclusion, and Intergroup Attitudes: Equity and Justice in Developmental Science
  Editors: Melanie Killen, Adam Rutland and Tiffany Yip
  Published: 87:5 September/October 2016

• Asian American Child Development
  Editor: Vivian Tseng
  Published: 87:4 July/August 2016

• The Ontogeny of Cultural Learning
  Editors: Cristine Legare and Paul Harris
  Published: 87:3 May/June 2016

• Epigenetics, Child Behavior and Development: Unraveling the Gene-Environment Interation
  Editors: Barry Lester, Elizabeth Conradt and Carmen Marsit
  Published: 87:1 January/February 2016

• Ethnic and Racial Identity in Child Development
  Editors: Michael Cunningham, Deborah Rivas-Drake and Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor
  Published: 85:1 January/February 2014

• Genomics
  Editors: Mary Dozier and Elena L. Grigorenko
  Published: 84:1 January/February 2013

• Children From Immigrant Families
  Editors: Robert Crosnoe and Andrew J. Fuligni
  Published: 83:5 September/October 2012

• Child Development in Developing Countries
  Editor: Marc H. Bornstein
  Published: 83:1 January/February 2012

• Raising Healthy Children
  Editors: Nancy G. Guerra, Sandra Graham and Patrick H. Tolan
  Published: 82:1 January/February 2011

• Disasters and Their Impact on Child Development
  Editors: Ann S. Masten and Joy D. Osofsky
  Published: 81:4 July/August 2010

• The Effects of Early Experience on Development
  Editors: Nathan A. Fox and Michael Rutter
  Published: 81:1 January/February 2010

• Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience
  Editors: Rebecca R. Saxe and Kevin A. Pelphrey
  Published: 80:4 July/August 2009