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. Suppes GJ. Materials design. Simulation as a tool for biopolymers design. Science. 2014;346:1055–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. del Giorgio PA, Duarte CM. Respiration in the open ocean. Nature. 2002;420:379–84.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Barwick B, Flannigan DJ, Zewail AH. Photon-induced near-field electron microscopy. Nature. 2009;462:902–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Catherall AT, Eaves L, King PJ, Booth SR. Magnetic levitation: Floating gold in cryogenic oxygen. Nature. 2003;422:579.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Mubarak S. Construction Project Scheduling and Control. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Delgado JMPQ, editor. Drying and Wetting of Building Materials and Components. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Cohen-Solal JFG, Jeganathan V, Grimaldi CM, Peeva E, Diamond B. Sex Hormones and SLE: Influencing the Fate of Autoreactive B Cells. In: Radbruch A, Lipsky PE, editors. Current Concepts in Autoimmunity and Chronic Inflammation. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 67–88.

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. Andrew E. Can Elusive Cancer Stem Cells Seed New Tumours Months After Chemotherapy? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/can-elusive-cancer-stem-cells-seed-new-tumours-months-after-chemotherapy/

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. School Age Demographics: Recent Trends Pose New Educational Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Aug. Report No.: HRD-93-105BR.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Sullivan TJ. Molecular Ecology, Disease Ecology, and Candidate Genes for Pathogen Resistance in the Blue Crab Callinectes sapidus [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2017.

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. Kishkovsky S. Yuri Afanasyev, Ex-Communist Scholar, Dies at 81. New York Times. 2015 Oct 5;B11.

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