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

Lane J (2010) Let’s make science metrics more scientific. Nature 464:488–489

A journal article with 2 authors

Min J-H, Pavletich NP (2007) Recognition of DNA damage by the Rad4 nucleotide excision repair protein. Nature 449:570–575

A journal article with 3 authors

Convertito V, Catalli F, Emolo A (2013) Combining stress transfer and source directivity: the case of the 2012 Emilia seismic sequence. Sci Rep 3:3114

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lagos-Quintana M, Rauhut R, Lendeckel W, Tuschl T (2001) Identification of novel genes coding for small expressed RNAs. Science 294:853–858

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Milne D (2012) The Psychology of Retirement. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex, UK

An edited book

Tsikalas F, Dypvik H, Smelror M (eds) (2011) The Mjølnir Impact Event and its Consequences: Geology and Geophysics of a Late Jurassic/Early Cretaceous Marine Impact Event. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Marasinghe MG, Kennedy WJ (2008) Analysis of Variance Models. In: Kennedy WJ (ed) SAS for Data Analysis: Intermediate Statistical Methods. Springer, New York, NY, pp 1–113

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

Andrew D (2016) Cracked It! A 30-Year Cold Case Involving An Egg And The Mysterious Night Parrot. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cracked-it-a-30year-cold-case-involving-an-egg-and-the-mysterious-night-parrot/. 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 (1997) Telecommunications Management: More Effort Needed by Interior and the Forest Service to Achieve Savings. 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

Hensley AL (2009) Gender, personality, and coping: Unraveling gender in military post -deployment physical and mental wellness. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

St. John Kelly E (1994) CHILDREN’S BOOKS. New York Times 732

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lane 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Min and Pavletich 2007; Lane 2010).

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

Two authors: (Min and Pavletich 2007)
Three or more authors: (Lagos-Quintana et al. 2001)

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