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

Berkley, S., 2015. Share the risks of Ebola vaccine development. Nature 519, 263.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fekete, D.M., Noden, D.M., 2013. Developmental biology. A transition in the middle ear. Science 339, 1396–1397.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sereno, M.I., Pitzalis, S., Martinez, A., 2001. Mapping of contralateral space in retinotopic coordinates by a parietal cortical area in humans. Science 294, 1350–1354.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Maggio, I., Holkers, M., Liu, J., Janssen, J.M., Chen, X., Gonçalves, M.A.F.V., 2014. Adenoviral vector delivery of RNA-guided CRISPR/Cas9 nuclease complexes induces targeted mutagenesis in a diverse array of human cells. Sci. Rep. 4, 5105.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Michael, E., Gillian, H., Stefan, K., Alex, L., 2012. Gramsci. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Krantz, S.G. (Ed.), 2006. Geometric Function Theory: Explorations in Complex Analysis, Cornerstones. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Mehta, G., Deelman, E., Knowles, J.A., Chen, T., Wang, Y., Vöckler, J., Buyske, S., Matise, T., 2012. Enabling Data and Compute Intensive Workflows in Bioinformatics, in: Alexander, M., D’Ambra, P., Belloum, A., Bosilca, G., Cannataro, M., Danelutto, M., Martino, B.D., Gerndt, M., Jeannot, E., Namyst, R., Roman, J., Scott, S.L., Traff, J.L., Vallée, G., Weidendorfer, J. (Eds.), Euro-Par 2011: Parallel Processing Workshops: CCPI, CGWS, HeteroPar, HiBB, HPCVirt, HPPC, HPSS, MDGS, ProPer, Resilience, UCHPC, VHPC, Bordeaux, France, August 29 – September 2, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 23–32.

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

O`Callaghan, J., 2015. Humans Have Now Been Living In Space For 15 Years On The International Space Station [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2000. GAO Report on Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes (No. AIMD-00-82R). 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

Hartley, D.L., 2010. Transnational jazz and blues: Aural aesthetics and African diasporic fiction (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

McKINLEY, J.C., Jr, 2017. Plea Deal For Woman In Spitzer Case. New York Times A25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Berkley, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Berkley, 2015; Fekete and Noden, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Fekete and Noden, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Maggio et al., 2014)

About the journal

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