How to format your references using the Current Developmental Disorders Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Developmental Disorders Reports. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

1. Suresh S. Research funding: Global challenges need global solutions. Nature. 2012;490:337–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Zhou Z, Bai Y. Structural biology: analysis of protein-folding cooperativity. Nature. 2007;445:E16-7; discussion E17-8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Snyder SA, Gollner A, Chiriac MI. Regioselective reactions for programmable resveratrol oligomer synthesis. Nature. 2011;474:461–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Gibson DG, Glass JI, Lartigue C, Noskov VN, Chuang R-Y, Algire MA, et al. Creation of a bacterial cell controlled by a chemically synthesized genome. Science. 2010;329:52–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Terré M, Pischella M, Vivier E. Wireless Telecommunication Systems. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Yakhno T, editor. Advances in Information Systems: Third International Conference, ADVIS 2004, Izmir, Turkey, October 20-22, 2004. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Bucher T. Neither Black Nor Box: Ways of Knowing Algorithms. In: Kubitschko S, Kaun A, editors. Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 81–98.

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 Current Developmental Disorders Reports.

Blog post

1. Fang J. Brazilian Stingless Bees Farm Fungus To Feed Their Offspring. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Federal Direction Needed for Educating Handicapped Children in State Schools. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978 Mar. Report No.: HRD-78-6.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Gallegos LL. Spatiotemporal regulation of protein kinase C signaling: Control of normal cellular dynamics and mis-regulation in cancer [Doctoral dissertation]. [La Jolla, CA]: University of California San Diego; 2009.

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

1. Ketner L. Quotation of the Day. New York Times. 2009 Jun 28;A3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Current Developmental Disorders Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Dev. Disord. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2196-2987
Scope