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. Corbel S. Astronomy. Watching black holes spin. Science. 2004;303:1480–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Allen RM, Kanamori H. The potential for earthquake early warning in southern California. Science. 2003;300:786–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Mackenzie RB, Dewberry CT, Leopold KR. SULFUR CHEMISTRY. Gas phase observation and microwave spectroscopic characterization of formic sulfuric anhydride. Science. 2015;349:58–61.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Hapfelmeier S, Lawson MAE, Slack E, Kirundi JK, Stoel M, Heikenwalder M, et al. Reversible microbial colonization of germ-free mice reveals the dynamics of IgA immune responses. Science. 2010;328:1705–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bennett DH. Bennett’s Cardiac Arrhythmias. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

1. Bray GA, Ryan DH, editors. Overweight and the Metabolic Syndrome: From Bench to Bedside. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Koriche F. Learning to Assign Degrees of Belief in Relational Domains. In: Blockeel H, Ramon J, Shavlik J, Tadepalli P, editors. Inductive Logic Programming: 17th International Conference, ILP 2007, Corvallis, OR, USA, June 19-21, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 25–6.

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. Hale T. Farmers Are Using Laser Beams In The Battle Against Geese. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Civil Agencies Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Aug. Report No.: AA-98-29(3).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Rodriguez F. Grant proposal: Providing effective screening, training, and supervision for an at-risk youth mentoring program [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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. Crow K. The Newest Tower: Working 24/7. New York Times. 2001 Dec 9;1414.

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