How to format your references using the Development Engineering citation style

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

Ottino, J.M., 2003. Is a picture worth 1,000 words? Nature 421, 474–476.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weyand, S., Iwata, S., 2010. Biochemistry. Old gate gets a new look. Science 329, 151–152.

A journal article with 3 authors

Buck, W.R., Lavier, L.L., Poliakov, A.N.B., 2005. Modes of faulting at mid-ocean ridges. Nature 434, 719–723.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dupuis, S., Dargemont, C., Fieschi, C., Thomassin, N., Rosenzweig, S., Harris, J., Holland, S.M., Schreiber, R.D., Casanova, J.L., 2001. Impairment of mycobacterial but not viral immunity by a germline human STAT1 mutation. Science 293, 300–303.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anisman, H., 2015. Stress and Your Health. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Nordhausen, K., Taskinen, S. (Eds.), 2015. Modern Nonparametric, Robust and Multivariate Methods: Festschrift in Honour of Hannu Oja, 1st ed. 2015. ed. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Besnard, P., Grégoire, É., Ramon, S., 2011. Enforcing Logically Weaker Knowledge in Classical Logic, in: Xiong, H., Lee, W.B. (Eds.), Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management: 5th International Conference, KSEM 2011, Irvine, CA, USA, December 12-14, 2011. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 44–55.

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 Engineering.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014. Electrical Signals Change Monkey’s Choices [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/electrical-signals-change-monkeys-choices/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1984. Improvements Needed in the Department of the Interior’s Measurement of Offshore Oil for Royalty Purposes (No. RCED-84-78). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Garcia, D.M., 2010. Cutting a thorn: The cleansing function of female genital cutting (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Saslow, L., 2009. Moving From Team Sport to Lifelong Fitness. New York Times LI5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ottino, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Ottino, 2003; Weyand and Iwata, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Weyand and Iwata, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Dupuis et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Development Engineering
Abbreviation	Dev. Eng.
ISSN (print)	2352-7285
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