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

Staveteig, S. E. (2005). Scientists and societies. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria. Nature 433, 338.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moreira, D. and López-García, P. (2005). Comment on “The 1.2-megabase genome sequence of Mimivirus.” Science 308, 1114; author reply 1114.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bergmann, D. C., Lukowitz, W. and Somerville, C. R. (2004). Stomatal development and pattern controlled by a MAPKK kinase. Science 304, 1494–1497.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Bulteau, A.-L., O’Neill, H. A., Kennedy, M. C., Ikeda-Saito, M., Isaya, G. and Szweda, L. I. (2004). Frataxin acts as an iron chaperone protein to modulate mitochondrial aconitase activity. Science 305, 242–245.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

El-Haik, B. and Roy, D. M. (2005). Service Design for Six Sigma. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Johansson, H. and Panican, A. eds. (2016). Combating Poverty in Local Welfare Systems. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Tomasi, D., Gaiotti, F. and Jones, G. V. (2013). Phenology. In The Power of the Terroir: the Case Study of Prosecco Wine (ed. Gaiotti, F.) and Jones, G. V.), pp. 55–64. Basel: Springer.

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. (2015). Google’s AI Can Dream, and Here’s What it Looks Like. 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 (1980). U.S. General Accounting Office Strategic Plan for Administrative ADP Systems, 1981-85. 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

Ahmadi, S. A. (2009). Synergistic interplay between math search and handwritten mathematical notation recognition.

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

Brantley, B. (2016). Nine Blazing Identities, Melding as One on AstroTurf. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Staveteig, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Moreira and López-García, 2005; Staveteig, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Moreira and López-García, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Bulteau et al., 2004)

About the journal

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