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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Austin, J. (2005). The class of 2005. United States: two scientists and a baby. Science 310, 518–519.

A journal article with 2 authors

Melbourne, B. A. and Hastings, A. (2009). Highly variable spread rates in replicated biological invasions: fundamental limits to predictability. Science 325, 1536–1539.

A journal article with 3 authors

Catling, D. C., Zahnle, K. J. and McKay, C. (2001). Biogenic methane, hydrogen escape, and the irreversible oxidation of early Earth. Science 293, 839–843.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Feng, J., Huang, Y., Tu, Z., Zhang, H., Pan, M. and Tang, H. (2014). Proton conduction of polyAMPS brushes on titanate nanotubes. Sci. Rep. 4, 6225.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Andresen, R., Oades, L. G. and Caputi, P. (2011). Psychological Recovery. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Toulouevski, Y. N. (2010). Innovation in Electric Arc Furnaces: Scientific Basis for Selection. (ed. Zinurov, I. Y.) Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Parpinelli, R. S. and Lopes, H. S. (2012). Population Resizing Using Nonlinear Dynamics in an Ecology-Based Approach. In Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning - IDEAL 2012: 13th International Conference, Natal, Brazil, August 29-31, 2012. Proceedings (ed. Yin, H.), Costa, J. A. F.), and Barreto, G.), pp. 27–34. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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). Can Insects Feed A Hungry Planet? 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 (2014). Information Technology: IRS Needs to Improve the Reliability and Transparency of Reported Investment Information. 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

Lee, K. S. (2008). Towards an improved baton technique: The application and modification of conducting gestures drawn from the methods of Rudolf, Green and Saitö for enhanced performance of orchestral interpretations.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2007). Justices, 5-4, Accept No Excuses From Inmate for Mistaken Late Filing of an Appeal. New York Times A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Austin, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Austin, 2005; Melbourne and Hastings, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Melbourne and Hastings, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Feng et al., 2014)

About the journal

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