How to format your references using the Developmental Cell citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Developmental Cell. 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	Download the output style file
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

Schilling, G. (2000). ASTRONOMY: Watch This Space! Science 289, 238b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Padoa-Schioppa, C., and Assad, J.A. (2006). Neurons in the orbitofrontal cortex encode economic value. Nature 441, 223–226.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, H., Cheng, Y.-C., and Fleming, G.R. (2007). Coherence dynamics in photosynthesis: protein protection of excitonic coherence. Science 316, 1462–1465.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Shimizu, K., Kimura, T., Furomoto, S., Takeda, K., Kontani, K., Onuki, Y., and Amaya, K. (2001). Superconductivity in the non-magnetic state of iron under pressure. Nature 412, 316–318.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maji, P., and Pal, S.K. (2012). Rough-Fuzzy Pattern Recognition (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

Kunusch, C. (2012). Sliding-Mode Control of PEM Fuel Cells P. Puleston and M. Mayosky, eds. (Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

Bolajraf, M. (2016). Control Synthesis for General Positive 2D Models. In Proceedings of the Mediterranean Conference on Information & Communication Technologies 2015: MedCT 2015 Volume 2 Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering., A. El Oualkadi, F. Choubani, and A. El Moussati, eds. (Springer International Publishing), pp. 31–39.

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 Developmental Cell.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2015). Hurricane Joaquin Photographed From the International Space Station. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/hurricane-joaquin-photographed-international-space-station/.

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 (1999). Export Controls: International Space Station Technology Transfers (U.S. Government Printing Office).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Parhad, A. (2015). Energy scavenging using piezoelectric sensors to power in pavement intelligent vehicle detection systems.

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

Protess, B. (2017). From the London Whale to Wells Fargo, a Bank Regulator Looks Back. New York Times, B5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ².
This sentence cites two references ^2,4.
This sentence cites four references ^2,4,6,8.

About the journal

Full journal title	Developmental Cell
Abbreviation	Dev. Cell
ISSN (print)	1534-5807
ISSN (online)	1878-1551
Scope	Developmental Biology