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 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

Ostrom E (2009) A general framework for analyzing sustainability of social-ecological systems. Science 325:419–422

A journal article with 2 authors

Hidalgo C, Donoso P (2011) Cell signaling. Getting to the heart of mechanotransduction. Science 333:1388–1390

A journal article with 3 authors

Langer P, Hogendoorn K, Keller L (2004) Tug-of-war over reproduction in a social bee. Nature 428:844–847

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Paillaud J-L, Harbuzaru B, Patarin J, Bats N (2004) Extra-large-pore zeolites with two-dimensional channels formed by 14 and 12 rings. Science 304:990–992

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alexandrovna MI, Ionin BI, Tebby JC (2013) Alkynes in Cycloadditions. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Mitchell-Walthour GL, Hordge-Freeman E (eds) (2016) Race and the Politics of Knowledge Production: Diaspora and Black Transnational Scholarship in the United States and Brazil. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Pavie X, Egal J (2014) Innovation and Responsibility: A Managerial Approach to the Integration of Responsibility in a Disruptive Innovation Model. In: van den Hoven J, Doorn N, Swierstra T, et al. (eds) Responsible Innovation 1: Innovative Solutions for Global Issues. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 53–66

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 E (2015) Rankings, Prestige, Student Experience: How To Choose A ‘Good’ University. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/rankings-prestige-student-experience-how-choose-good-university/. 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 (2004) Commercial Aviation: Despite Industry Turmoil, Low-Cost Airlines Are Growing and Profitable. 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

Tanner-Anderson SL (2014) “The Road Less Traveled”: The Female’s Journey to the State Superintendency. 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

Shear MD (2017) In Trump’s Silence, Pence Takes a Swipe at Russia. New York Times A8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ostrom 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Ostrom 2009; Hidalgo and Donoso 2011).

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

Two authors: (Hidalgo and Donoso 2011)
Three or more authors: (Paillaud et al. 2004)

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