How to format your references using the Development Genes and Evolution citation style

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

Kristan WB (2007) Neuroscience. A push-me pull-you neural design. Science 315:339–340

A journal article with 2 authors

Lucadamo G, Medlin DL (2003) Geometric origin of hexagonal close packing at a grain boundary in gold. Science 300:1272–1275

A journal article with 3 authors

Xu K, Cao P, Heath JR (2010) Graphene visualizes the first water adlayers on mica at ambient conditions. Science 329:1188–1191

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Martínez-Sansigre A, Rawlings S, Lacy M, et al (2005) The obscuration by dust of most of the growth of supermassive black holes. Nature 436:666–669

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bonem JM (2011) Problem Solving for Process Operators and Specialists. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Lindquist JD (ed) (2015) Proceedings of the 1984 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Salvail L, Schaffner C, Sotáková M (2009) On the Power of Two-Party Quantum Cryptography. In: Matsui M (ed) Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2009: 15th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, Tokyo, Japan, December 6-10, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 70–87

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 Genes and Evolution.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2015) First Brain-to-Brain Interface Could Revolutionize Neuroscience. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1979) Comments on Report Entitled “The Federal Program To Strengthen Developing Institutions of Higher Education Lacks Direction.” 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

Hughes LL (2010) The principalship: Preparation programs and the self-efficacy of principals. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Sang-Hun C (2017) Accused of ‘Hostile Acts,’ a 4th American Citizen Is Detained by North Korea. New York Times A4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kristan 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Lucadamo and Medlin 2003; Kristan 2007).

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

Two authors: (Lucadamo and Medlin 2003)
Three or more authors: (Martínez-Sansigre et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Development Genes and Evolution
Abbreviation	Dev. Genes Evol.
ISSN (print)	0949-944X
ISSN (online)	1432-041X
Scope	Developmental Biology Genetics