How to format your references using the Development citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Development. 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 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

Navrotsky, A. (2014). Nuclear Materials. Taking the measure of molten uranium oxide. Science 346, 916–917.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sanchez, V. and Spector, D. H. (2002). Virology. CMV makes a timely exit. Science 297, 778–779.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hanada, K.-I., Yewdell, J. W. and Yang, J. C. (2004). Immune recognition of a human renal cancer antigen through post-translational protein splicing. Nature 427, 252–256.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kam, T.-I., Mao, X., Park, H., Chou, S.-C., Karuppagounder, S. S., Umanah, G. E., Yun, S. P., Brahmachari, S., Panicker, N., Chen, R., et al. (2018). Poly(ADP-ribose) drives pathologic α-synuclein neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease. Science 362,.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wen, S. and Huang, P. (2011). Principles of Tribology. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd.

An edited book

Conrady, R. and Buck, M. eds. (2009). Trends and Issues in Global Tourism 2009. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Rhodes, B. and Goerzen, J. (2014). Socket Names and DNS. In Foundations of Python Network Programming: Third Edition (ed. Goerzen, J.), pp. 57–74. Berkeley, CA: Apress.

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 Development.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014). Recently-Discovered Wasp Species Named For Harry Potter Creature. 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 (1987). National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Planned Use of Information Technology for the Space Station. Washington, DC: 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

Gros, T. R. (2009). A templated agarose scaffold for axon guidance in the central and peripheral nervous system.

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

(nyt), S. K. (2002). World Briefing | Europe: Ukraine: President Tries To Fend Off Foes. New York Times A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Navrotsky, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Navrotsky, 2014; Sanchez and Spector, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Sanchez and Spector, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Kam et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Development
Abbreviation	Development
ISSN (print)	0950-1991
ISSN (online)	1477-9129
Scope	Developmental Biology Molecular Biology