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

Waxman, E. (2007). Neutrino astrophysics: a new tool for exploring the universe. Science 315, 63–65.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lieberman, R.L., and Rosenzweig, A.C. (2005). Crystal structure of a membrane-bound metalloenzyme that catalyses the biological oxidation of methane. Nature 434, 177–182.

A journal article with 3 authors

Son, Y.-W., Cohen, M.L., and Louie, S.G. (2006). Half-metallic graphene nanoribbons. Nature 444, 347–349.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Tahiliani, M., Mei, P., Fang, R., Leonor, T., Rutenberg, M., Shimizu, F., Li, J., Rao, A., and Shi, Y. (2007). The histone H3K4 demethylase SMCX links REST target genes to X-linked mental retardation. Nature 447, 601–605.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gustafsson, F. (2001). Adaptive Filtering and Change Detection (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd).

An edited book

Hayat, M.A. ed. (2011). Tumors of the Central Nervous System, Volume 2: Gliomas: Glioblastoma (Part 2) (Springer Netherlands).

A chapter in an edited book

Lee, D.S., and Yadav, J.S. (2007). Carotid Angioplasty and Stenting Trials. In Handbook Of Complex Percutaneous Carotid Intervention, J. Saw, J. E. Exaire, D. S. Lee, and J. S. Yadav, eds. (Humana Press), pp. 47–63.

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

Luntz, S. (2016). Lichen: A Three-Way Symbiosis. IFLScience.

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 (1970). Observations of the Test of the Simplifed Method for Determining Eligibility of Persons for Adult Public Assistance Programs (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

Ponti, C.M. (2010). The musical representation of Asian characters in the musicals of Richard Rodgers.

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

Brantley, B., and Green, J. (2017). Critics at War? Yes. But Agreeing, Too. New York Times, C1.

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